COVID-19: A Gendered Reading Of A Pandemic – Analysis
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By Akanksha Khullar*
The gender-disaggregated data available so far for COVID-19 demonstrates an almost equal number of confirmed cases between men and women. However, mortality rates are higher among men (2.8 per cent) than women (1.7 per cent). Purely from the perspective of a physical illness, the virus appears to affect...