The COVID-19 Pandemic and Gender+ Inequalities in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia: The Heteronormativity of Anti-Pandemic Measures and Their Impact on Vulnerable Groups

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F23%3A00576545" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/23:00576545 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.genderonline.cz/artkey/gav-202301-0007_the-covid-19-pandemic-and-gender-inequalities-in-the-czech-republic-hungary-and-slovakia-the-heteronormativ.php" target="_blank" >https://www.genderonline.cz/artkey/gav-202301-0007_the-covid-19-pandemic-and-gender-inequalities-in-the-czech-republic-hungary-and-slovakia-the-heteronormativ.php</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/gav.2023.007" target="_blank" >10.13060/gav.2023.007</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Gender+ Inequalities in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia: The Heteronormativity of Anti-Pandemic Measures and Their Impact on Vulnerable Groups

Original language description

Various research studies suggest that women and other vulnerable groups are the ones who were impacted most and who continue to suffer from the economic and social effects of the pandemic. However, these groups have often been omitted from the measures mitigating the pandemic impact due to their invisibility in the policy-knowledge nexus. This article draws on the findings from the international RESISTIRÉ research project, which focuses on how COVID-19 policies impacted gendered inequalities in Europe. Building on feminist institutionalism and an intersectional approach, we contribute to the debate on how existent gender regimes have shaped anti-pandemic policies in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. While examining policy responses, we identified two main meta-frames that are present across the countries in our analysis and that increased gender+ inequalities: the neoliberal model of active citizens that ties the redistribution of aid to labour market activity and the heteronormative family narrative. This narrative has led to those who do not fit within its framework being ignored in policies and to attacks on those groups in an effort to reinforce the narrative’s hegemony. The impact of these frames was further amplified by practices of non-inclusive decision-making (in all three countries), where gender expertise was excluded as politicised and biased.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research

ISSN

2570-6578

e-ISSN

2570-6586

Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

114-134

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85174700596