“Why Are So Many Women Dying from Ebola?

Studies show that infectious disease often affects one gender more than another — but that knowledge isn’t being put into practice….

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The willful failure to take sex/gender into account is reminiscent of the failure to notice that most victims of gun massacres are women. Find the article at Foreign Policy.

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About Laura Purdy

Laura Purdy is a bioethicist, feminist philosopher, and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Wells College, where she served on the faculty for more than three decades. She has served on the Editorial Boards of Hypatia and of Bioethics and has been an active member of FAB for many years. She is the author of six books including Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics [co-edited with Helen B. Holmes], Reproducing Persons, and In Their Best Interest? The Case against Equal Rights for Children.

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“Why Are So Many Women Dying from Ebola? — 1 Comment

  1. Death rates for women in all sorts of disasters are elevated. It has to do with many of the usual suspects–women’s clothing and norms of physical activity make it harder to respond to an immediate physical threat; resultant chaos and breakdown of civil order elevates violence against women; caregiving responsibilities disadvantage women in numerous ways, as this Foreign Policy article discusses. Disaster response often focuses on infrastructure and law & order, rather than working with community resilience to restore capacity for the care labour that sustains life—the Foreign Policy article also nicely discusses the lack of women’s perspectives at the global public health and infectious disease tables. This Gender and Disaster Network does great work in this area. Thanks for sharing the Foreign Policy piece!

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