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RAPID GENDER ANALYSIS:Filling the Data Gap to Build Back Equal© Ollivier Girard/CARE

Executive Summary
As pandemic-driven health, social, economic, and hunger crises deepen across the globe, it is increasingly clearthat COVID-19 is widening systemic inequalities that have long affected women, girls, and other people who facediscrimination because of race and migration status. These dynamics threaten decades of progress in realizing
the rights and equalities that all people should enjoy, and that women have fought hard to claim. CARE has warned
from the beginning that the pandemic would have a disproportionate impact on women and girls. But foresight isonly as good as the action it enables. The efficacy of CARE’s and others’ COVID-19 responses depends onunderstanding how marginalized people are affected, in all their diversity, across contexts, and over time.
Women’s needs are routinely overlooked without deliberate efforts to fill persistent gender data gaps. So wesought the advice of experts: women themselves.
Across nearly 40 countries, the voices of more than 6,000 women bear out the dire predictions from March: that
COVID-19 would result in catastrophic impacts across multiple dimensions of their lives. The growing scope of
CARE’s data enables us to make more confident, global conclusions about the experiences of both women andmen. Among those surveyed, women were more likely than men to report challenges across a range of areas:•

Livelihoods: 55% of the women CARE spoke to reported that income loss was one of the biggest impacts
COVID-19 had for them, compared with only 34% of men. Women are more likely to work in the informal
sector that COVID-19 is hitting the hardest, and have less access to unemployment benefits.

•

Food security: 41% of women and 30% of men reported lack of food was a key impact COVID-19 had on
their lives. This difference reflects deeply entrenched gender inequalities in local and global food systems.

•

Mental health: One of the most striking differences is around mental health, where 27% of womenreported this was a key impact of COVID-19—compared with only 10% of men. Women especially point toskyrocketing unpaid care burdens as a source of this stress, in addition to worries about livelihoods, food,and health care.

These findings reinforce the understanding that men and women prioritize, experience, and report on issues
differently. The gaps these findings reveal illustrate the vital importance of listening to many voices, and giving

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2diverse groups of women equal opportunity to influence people who make decisions about COVID-19 support.
Only by examining these differences can we ensure that responses are designed to work effectively and reachpeople with the assistance they need most.
Moreover, women’s and men’s answers consistently highlight that COVID-19 responses are falling short.
Inequalities are growing. Policymakers and service providers have not yet moved beyond one-size-fits-all todesign COVID-19 assistance that equitably targets and supports the people who need it most. The current
responses are failing to stem economic crises, hunger, and social turmoil. It is past time to move from planning toaccountability. Women and other marginalized groups—especially those affected by multiple forms of
discrimination—must be part of designing the COVID-19 response. Only then can the world hope to achieve any
semblance of recovery.
CARE makes the following recommendations to inform a more equitable, effective COVID-19 response, and a moreequal future for everyone:•

Get women and girls what they need. All actors providing support during COVID-19—either throughexisting safety net programs, special COVID-19 relief programs, or humanitarian aid—should focus on theareas women are prioritizing: livelihoods, food, mental health, and gender-based violence (GBV) services.
Every actor must meaningfully include women in designing COVID-19 assistance. Programs should
deliberately target female recipients to ensure that support effectively meets the needs of both men andwomen. This also means sustaining reproductive health services and GBV prevention and response as
essential services.

•

Invest in women leaders. COVID-19 coordination and planning platforms are most effective when they are
diverse and gender-balanced.1 All COVID-19 leadership committees and task forces should include at least
50% women and prioritize partnering with women’s rights organizations. Actors should also work to
engage men and boys in supporting women, women’s rights, and gender-equitable responses.

•

Fill the data gap. This report shows the power of listening to women and girls, and how the stories theytell are different from what aggregate data shows us. It also shows that it is possible to fill the data gap
to design more effective responses. All actors must collect, publish, and act on sex- and age-disaggregateddata, and focus on the gaps between different people’s needs.

•

Be accountable for equality. Every actor delivering COVID-19 responses should publish a status report on
their activities to date and actions they have taken to listen to women’s experiences, uphold women’s
rights, and ensure that women and girls have equal access to relief and recovery efforts.

Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic impacts nearly every system—health, economics, food, water, education, and social
services—and exposes their fundamental weaknesses and inequalities. COVID-19 is deepening gender gaps,
reversing progress toward economic justice and more equitable health care access, and diminishing women’s
participation in public spaces. Leaders at all levels—from the community to global decision-makers—overlook
women and their needs. The data and assumptions these leaders use to inform decisions rarely include women’s
perspectives and experiences. As a result, leaders design COVID-19 responses that do not meet women’s needs.
CARE is working to fill this data gap. We’re supporting women to lift up their own voices about COVID-19, its
impacts, and what they need. In March, CARE published the first Rapid Gender Analysis on COVID-19, based on our
expertise with prior crises and secondary data. In June, we looked at the common themes across 15 regional andlocal analyses with local partners and experts.

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Looking at secondary data is critical, but it is not enough. Global COVID-19 responses will only be fit for purpose
if we listen to what diverse women say. We also need to listen to other marginalized groups and, of course, men.
The goal is not to elevate women’s concerns above men’s, but to make sure they are heard in the first place, sothat humanitarian assistance can meet all people’s needs. By August 25, CARE had asked more than 6,200 womenand 4,000 men in 38 countries about the biggest impact COVID-19 has had on their lives, and how they are
responding to these challenges.a For the first time in the pandemic, we can compare global, quantitative data
about men’s and women’s priorities. This is the first report of its kind, recommending changes based on women’svoices and experiences across nearly 40 countries.
From their perspectives as individuals, family members, savings groups participants, employees, health workers,
and local leaders, these women are telling stories with common themes about COVID-19’s impact. These voices
bear out the predictions from March and show that COVID-19 is deepening inequality across nearly 40 countries.
In addition to common themes, COVID-19 also is presenting unique challenges in every context. Women and girls—
and men and boys—face additional risks based on other aspects of their identity, such as race, employment,
migration and legal status, and whether they have a disability. The 37 Rapid Gender Analyses and 14 additional
needs assessments provide rich details about each context and specific challenges.b

What are women’s top concerns about COVID-19?
Women whom CARE spoke with across all of these contexts are telling a consistent story about COVID-19’s impacts,
and that story is different from the one men tell. This points to critical areas where we must improve the COVID19 response. For example, women surveyed were nearly three times more likely to report mental health impacts
from COVID-19 than men. On every dimension, CARE’s research showed more women than men reported problems
from COVID-19. Here are their biggest concerns.

Losing jobs and income. 55% of women
respondents reported losing their jobs or
Women in Bangladesh are six
income, and women were 60% more likely
times more likely to lose paid
than men to report that one of COVID-19’s
working hours than men.abiggest impacts in their life was on theirjob or income. Women are more likely tobe employed in the service and informal
sectors that COVID-19 is hitting hardest. Even in the formal sector, COVID-19 is widening inequality.2 For example,
women in Bangladesh are six times more likely to lose paid working hours than men.3
Women who are losing their livelihoods are also having a hard time getting support—whether from humanitarian
aid or government safety nets. For example, in Zimbabwe and Cameroon, women make up 65% of informal sector
workers, such as vendors and cross-border traders, and that workforce is not entitled to unemployment
benefits.4,5 Côte d’Ivoire has designated COVID-19 resources to go to the head of the household—usually a man—
which puts women at risk if a man chooses not to share resources or is absent from the household.6 Across thedata represented here, migrants—including refugees and internally displaced people—are among those at thehighest risk of losing jobs and income, and have the fewest safe alternatives to respond to COVID-19. Women
migrants are at even higher risk, especially with unsafe quarantine centers, high rates of GBV, and few services
targeted to women.

aMost of the people in these samples are participants in CARE’s programs, which implies that they are among the poorest and most vulnerable people in society. This data does
not reflect national-level representative surveys.
b
The full list of documents this document references is available online: http://www.careevaluations.org/homepage/care-evaluations-covid-19

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4What Are COVID-19's Biggest Impacts in Your Life?
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Livelihoods

Food

Mental Health

Health Services
Women

GBV/Protection

Water

Mobility

Men

Going hungry. 41% of women said that hunger is one of their biggest challenges, compared with 30% of men.
While both men and women are going hungry, women reported eating even less frequently than men—they areoften expected to buy and prepare all food for the family, and typically eat last and least in order to ensure theother family members have enough. For example, in Afghanistan, men reported eating fewer meals three days aweek, while women are eating fewer meals four days a week.7 COVID-19 not only is compromising how much foodpeople eat, but it also is forcing people to make less nutritious food choices. For example, in Venezuela, 74% of
people can access cereals, but only 61% can access proteins or vegetables.8 Women’s difficulties in accessing
COVID-19 support programs also make it harder to have nutritious food at home.

Facing mental health challenges. 27% of women reported rising anxiety, stress, and mental health issues, andwomen were nearly three times more likely than men to report these challenges. Compounding worries about
income, health care, and food, women have been grappling with skyrocketing unpaid care burdens, which theyreport as a major cause of stress. For example, in Lebanon, women reported spending 83% of their time onhousework and caring for others, compared with 14% for men.9 While men are certainly facing mental healthchallenges, they were less likely to report or prioritize those issues in CARE’s surveys. This disparity is influencing
the way COVID-19 responses prioritize mental health services, as well as the lack of focus on addressing unpaid
care burdens to support women’s ability to focus on other opportunities.

“If there is no way to work as a hairdresser, I will find somethingelse. If I must work day shifts in the kitchen and night shifts as ahairdresser, I will do it. I have no limits when it comes to work. I
take the opportunities that I find. Options like pork and meat, astaple before, are now out of the menu. I cannot afford them. I haveheadaches because I eat about twice a day, not the three meals I
ate before COVID-19.”— Gregoris del Valle Camacho Figueroa, Ecuador

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Losing access to health services and services for GBV.

“The stress of contracting the disease
prevented me from visiting family. So I
stayed at home, cloistered. I ate andgained weight—something I fear the
most. The course of life changed
overnight. I had to wear a mask, andthe stress of contracting the diseasecaused me to have a severe malaria
crisis. I was ill for two weeks. Also, I was
afraid to go to the hospital—we don’tknow anyone there. It is not known
which patient or doctor is the carrier ofthe disease. Which stressed me.”Even despite the stress, Carrine isfinding ways to lead.
“I am part of an association called
Sayap Africa which distributed
donations during the Covid-19 period. I
was in the front line, on June 11, 2020,
to distribute a meal to the nursing staffof the Djoungolo hospital in
Yaoundé. … Sayap Africa has taken theinitiative to distribute food to families
with at least six children. We bringthem rice, sardines, soap, tomatoes, sothat these families no longer have totravel and limit the contamination andspread of the virus. We distributed to
114 families in total.”— Carrine Annette Bidzogo, Cameroon

Women are nearly twice as likely to report access to andquality of health services as a challenge than men are, and
27% of women in the dataset rated this as one of their top
challenges. Women face social limitations on their mobility,
rely more on public transportation, often need a man’s
permission to get health care, and spend more time on
unpaid care than men—all of which restrict access toservices. For example, in Laos, 50% of rural women said theycannot access health care because it is not safe to travel andthey do not trust the system.10 In many countries, the lack offemale health workers at quarantine centers and COVID-19
testing facilities prevents women from being allowed toaccess services at all. Another crucial part of this picture isaccess to services for maternal, sexual, and reproductive
health. 73% of women surveyed in Afghanistan told CARE
they now have no access to family planning.11

73% of women surveyed
in Afghanistan told CARE
they now have no accessto family planning.

Rising violence. 14% of women and 11% of men reported
that issues around GBV and safety were among the biggest
COVID-19 impacts in their lives. Nearly all countries coveredin the study reported rising GBV, increased calls to hotlines,
and more demand for GBV services—both within CARE’s dataand in reviews of other data sources. Experts in countries
that do not report rising violence often point out that theirsystems are not robust enough to track these changes. This
is not just a problem for adult women, but also for children
and adolescents—both girls and boys. In Côte d’Ivoire, 23%of women interviewed (compared with zero men) feared
domestic violence because of COVID.12 As both men andwomen look to protect their children from the risk ofviolence, they may be turning to child marriage as a solution
for girls who are no longer in school. With fewer people inpublic places, and fewer safe spaces for women, women fearthat they will not be able to rely on bystander intervention
to protect them.13 COVID-19 is forcing women to spend moretime in places where they are at higher risk of GBV, such as
at home if they live with an abuser, at water points, or
waiting in line for social support.
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6What is already working?
Women are leading.
All levels of leadership—both in regular times and in COVID19—are heavily male-dominated. CARE’s research shows thatat national levels, women make up on average 24% of COVID19 response committees, and for many countries it is much
lower.14 In Vietnam, for example, women make up less than
0.5% of local leaders.15 Despite many barriers, women are
taking the lead—finding ways to share information, making
and selling masks and soap to curb COVID-19 transmission,changing their businesses and community groups to allow forsocial distancing, and finding ways to keep markets open.
In the Balkans, local Roma women are conducting outreachand delivering aid in their communities. In Benin, Togo,
Cameroon, and Ecuador, women’s groups are helping identify
women in need and get them services. Women in Guatemala
are setting up centers to provide GBV services to more than
2,800 survivors of GBV. In Egypt, CARE and women’s groups
are lobbying to end sexual harassment and rape.16

At national levels, womenmake up on average 24%
of COVID-19 response
committees, and for many
countries it is much lower.
In Vietnam, for example,
women make up less than
0.5% of local leaders.

“My organization has contributed significantly to the improvement of
the lives of women and girls in [Sierra Leone]. I am so proud of that. With
perseverance, hard work, consultation, and team work, my organization
became self-sufficient and attracted funding as well. Just keep going!”— Dorcas Taylor Tucker, Sierra Leone
Women’s leadership is a critical success factor at all levels, from the local to the global. By June 1, 2020, countries
with male leaders had six times more deaths from COVID-19 than those with women in charge. Women are also
leading their countries to faster control of the pandemic and a better economic recovery (economies with womenheads of state are predicted to shrink by 5.5% this year, compared with 7% where men run the country). Researchcontinues to show women leaders are handling COVID-19 more effectively than their male counterparts.17

The data gap is narrowing.
Women are often invisible in global data, and this is especially true in COVID-19. In a recent analysis of COVID-19
and hunger strategies from global leaders in the field, such as the United Nations and donor governments, CARE
found that none consistently included sex- and age-disaggregated data to show the differences among people’s
experiences.18 This research represents the first time in the pandemic that an organization is presenting
recommendations based on evidence from 6,200 women in nearly 40 countries about what they need during
COVID-19, and what they are doing to meet this global challenge themselves. This information provides invaluable
insights into how humanitarian and development actors can further adapt their work to support a more effective
and equitable COVID-19 response. It also reinforces the importance of actively listening to women to understandSeptember 2020: Filling the Data Gaps to Build Back Equal

7what they want, how they experience anddescribe their needs, and how their experiences
differ from men’s. Women have consistently
confirmed earlier predictions of the burdens
they would face and have underlined thegrowing gaps between women and men.
CARE will continue to publish these reports inthe countries where we work, with a global
summary quarterly. We also commit to making
women’s firsthand responses public for
decision-makers to access and analyze. Throughan initiative called Women Respond, we are
creating a global interactive dashboard thatallows anyone to examine the data and analyze
it based on geography, age, and categories likemigration or employment status.

Men and women are
working more together.

“Since I have been working with local communities,
I can see that a lot has changed for the better,
especially when it comes to attitudes to womenand girls. Traditionally, women would always sit in
the back, speak less than the men (or not at all),and men did not give them the opportunity toshare their opinion or ideas.

One opportunity arising out of COVID-19 is thepotential to shift norms around men’s andI hope that all of my efforts will encourage others
women’s roles—both in the family and in theto believe in their abilities; have more confidence
community. To take one example, most people
to raise their voice. … I hope to see more womenconsider that unpaid care is almost exclusively
leaders in the community, put an end to thewomen’s work. As men and women are at home
discrimination of women in society, and support
together for long stretches of time, some men
girls to go to school, in a world free from violence.”
are beginning to see the extent of the unpaid— Bouavanh Manichanh, Laoscare burden the women in their lives havealways borne. There are hopeful examples ofmen starting to shoulder this load with theirwives. COVID-19 is causing more men in Myanmar to temporarily help at home. As one 45-year-old woman from
Yangon put it: “While husbands are staying at home, they are helpful for wives.”19 In almost all countries, there
are also examples of couples working more closely together to make decisions for the whole family, and to budget
and plan together for the future, rather than planning and budgeting big purchases being a man’s role alone.

Recommendations
With these important insights into the different experiences for women and men, CARE proposes the following
recommendations to all decision-makers who are working on COVID-19 issues.

Get women and girls what they need.
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Urgently prioritize women’s and other excluded people’s access to social protection programs andhumanitarian aid. All actors providing support during COVID-19—either through existing safety net
programs, special COVID-19 relief programs, or humanitarian aid—should prioritize women recipients as
at least 50% of the people receiving aid in line with population demographics. They should also adjust
requirements of receiving support to ensure that no system makes it impossible for women, especiallymarried women, to access aid independently.

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8•Prioritize sexual and reproductive health; maternal and newborn health; and GBV prevention, risk
mitigation, and response as lifesaving interventions. Include them as part of initial COVID-19 responses.
Women, girls, and local health care experts at this point in the pandemic are urgently requesting more
support to family planning, prenatal consultations, center-based births and emergency obstetric care,extended midwife services that reach women where they are giving birth, and GBV prevention and support
services, especially access to safe spaces.

Invest in women leaders and women’s rights.
Women and youth leaders are showing remarkable resilience and ingenuity at all levels, but they need full accessto their rights in order to fully unlock this potential. COVID-19 coordination and planning platforms are mosteffective when they are diverse and gender-balanced.20•

Gender-balance COVID-19 coordination and planning platforms. All COVID-19 leadership committees andtask forces should include at least 50% women. At least 25% of the strategic partners engaged in planningand funding strategies should be local organizations.c21 These should prioritize women-led and women’s
rights organizations.

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Provide subsidies for local women’s rights organizations and women who are participating in all levelsof leadership opportunities. This includes those who must travel, pay additional data or technology fees,
pay for additional childcare, or give up other opportunities—especially income opportunities—toparticipate in COVID-19 and humanitarian processes.

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Fund specific programs on women’s rights, gender equality, and zero tolerance for GBV in all COVID-19
responses. As women are facing a rollback of rights, governments and humanitarian actors are in aposition to combat that problem by designing COVID-19 responses that promote women’s rights andgender equality, and actively work against GBV and other rollbacks of rights. Actively engaging men andboys to support women’s rights and share women’s burdens is a key part of this solution.

Fill the data gaps.
This report shows the power of listening to women’s and girls’ voices, and how having this data allows us to better
understand the challenges different people are facing. It also shows that it is possible to fill the data gap to design
more effective responses.

c•Consistently collect, publish, and act on sex- and age-disaggregated data. All actors must collect, publish,
and act on sex- and age-disaggregated data, and focus on the gaps between different people’s needs.
Using context-appropriate tools—SMS surveys, WhatsApp interviews, phone interviews, Kobo toolbox, orin-person data collection when it’s safe—makes it possible to quickly ask what different people need andunderstand gaps in current responses.

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Use qualitative data. The quantitative data only shows part of the picture. Responses are more effective
when they understand both high-level trends and specific details in each context. All data collection
efforts must include qualitative methods to better understand the complexities of people’s needs andidentities and provide more specific recommendations for effective action.

The Grand Bargain, Workstream 2. http://media.ifrc.org/grand_bargain_localisation

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9Be accountable for adaptation and equality.
Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, these recommendations must inform not only new COVID-19 plans, butalso the ways decision-makers are adapting their existing COVID-19 relief efforts and shaping their recovery
strategies. As we close the data gap, it is important to understand what other barriers prevent global actors from
responding to women’s needs. Women’s stories reveal that their needs are still not getting met. It is time to
uncover and address the reasons why the global response continues to overlook women and their needs.
•

Transparently commit to women and girls. Every actor should publish a status report on their COVID-19
commitments so far and include sections on actions they have taken to uphold women’s rights and ensurethat women, girls, and people left out of current responses have equal access to relief and recovery
efforts. CARE will publish our own report based on these recommendations, as well as a scorecard to see
how other global actors are building gender equality into their responses.

•

Match funding to commitments. In addition to showing how responses are adapting to better meet needs
for women, girls, and marginalized people, all actors should publish budget reports showing how they
have allocated resources to better meet these needs. CARE will publish information on our own spending
to support women and girls in COVID-19. Funding should reflect a clear commitment to equitably meetingneeds and building a more equal future for everyone.

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89Panagoulia, Angeliki (May 2020). “CARE Rapid Gender Analysis COVID-19 and Beyond Lebanon.” CARE Lebanon. http://www.careevaluations.org/evaluation/care-rapid-genderanalysis-lebanon-may-2020

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Kadidia Cisse Sidibe (2020). “Rapid Gender Analysis for COVID-19 Mali.” CARE Mali. (pending publication on evaluation library) http://careevaluations.org
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CARE (July 2020). “COVID-19 Situation Report.” July 17, 2020.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/18/female-led-countries-handled-coronavirus-better-study-jacinda-ardern-angela-merkel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Fuhrman, Sarah and Rhodes, Francesca (June 2020). “Where Are the Women? The Absence of Women in COVID-19 Response.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/18/female-led-countries-handled-coronavirus-better-study-jacinda-ardern-angela-merkel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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