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Over the last decade much has been written about camouflaged sexism. Reams of research and analysis has highlighted how our world is designed for âthe average manâ. This is particularly true in the field of medicine. Medical research, drug regulation, product design orientates to men. The default that informs decisions is men, menâs lives and practices and male bodies. This can have dangerous and even fatal consequences for women.
Health care workers are predominantly women. They have been infected at alarming rates. In a review of available studies globally totalling 152888 infections of health care workers, women represented 71.6 per cent of cases, 38.6 per cent of cases were nurses. Perhaps because of this certain narratives have emerged. Health care workers are described as âheroesâ. And whilst this has given rise to expressions of gratitude, systematic concerns about payment and protection of health care workers have been marked across the course o
Questions have been raised about whether lockdown decision-makers are suffering from an unconscious bias when deciding Covid restrictions because they are predominantly a group of educated, white, middle-aged Dublin-based men .
The issue has been raised by psychologist Professor Orla Muldoon, who sits on the behaviour and communication subcommittee that advises Nphet.
Prof Muldoon told the Sunday Independent the group has expressed its concerns to the decision-makers about the need to diversify . As it stands, there are no women on the Covid-19 Cabinet sub-committee and there are no women in the room when decisions are being made about the implementation of Nphet regulations, she said.
The lasting impact of austerity in Ireland, 10 years on
Updated / Sunday, 14 Mar 2021
07:00 You can draw a pretty straight line between the bank guarantee and the rise of conspiracy theorists
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If it doesn t seem like ten years since we played the national guessing game Is the Troika here? , and then bounced Fianna Fáil out of government, that might be because our lives have got shorter since then.
I had been meaning for some time to fact-check ads that the Department of Health had been running online claiming that our lives were getting longer and longer. But it was just one of those things I kept on forgetting to follow up on.