CORONA & women
The Corona pandemic amplifies gender inequalities.
It is crucial to understand and acknowledge how women are disproportionately affected throughout and beyond this crisis.
juxtaposing data on corona and women, published on 02nd apr 2020 with the most current numbers available at the time.
Video footage courtesy of:
tom elliott
felix pitscheneder
alexander tank
luftbild
featuring:
lily inge newmark
soundtrack:
chris banks
At the time of writing, information on the Coronavirus Crisis grows and changes almost by the hour. Therefore, we stamped our films and images with the time of publication. We researched our numbers with due diligence, but given the uncertainty of the topics, contradicting information exists. We chose the sources we thought most authoritative on the given subject. Below are the claims used in our material with source reference provided for each number.
90% of the world’s school children now need to be educated and supervised at home.
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86% of all single parents are women.
UNESCO reports that at the time of writing, 89% of the world's student population are affected by nationwide school closures - over 1.5 million in numbers.
https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse
In an article for Education Next, Ludger Woessmann collects data to arrive at the conservative estimate that at least 86% of single parents worldwide are women.
https://www.educationnext.org/international-look-single-parent-family/
Women do over 75% of unpaid care work worldwide
Published by the International Labour Organization. The Number even rises to 80% in Asia and the Pacific.
https://www.ilo.org/asia/media-centre/news/WCMS_633284/lang--en/index.htm
70% of professional health and social care worldwide is provided by women
From an analysis on gender equity in the health workforce in 104 countries, published by the World Health Organization in 2019.
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/311314/WHO-HIS-HWF-Gender-WP1-2019.1-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Women still earn 19% less than men
From the International Labour Organization's Global Wage Report.
https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/multimedia/maps-and-charts/enhanced/WCMS_650829/lang--en/index.htm
1 in 3 women suffers violence in her lifetime
The UN WOMEN estimates that 35 per cent of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or sexual violence by a non-partner (not including sexual harassment [!]) at some point in their lives.
https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/facts-and-figures
Domestic abuse cases
rose by 36% within 8 days of lockdown in Paris
and tripled within a month in Jingzhou, China
These numbers are preliminary as results are only starting to come in and are expected by experts to rise further.
https://www.axios.com/china-domestic-violence-coronavirus-quarantine-7b00c3ba-35bc-4d16-afdd-b76ecfb28882.html
https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/28/domestic-violence-cases-jump-30-during-lockdown-in-france
The politicians confronting Corona will write history
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Less than 25% of all parliamentarians
less than 10% of all national leaders
are women
There is extensive research on the gender power gap which is shockingly slow in closing across the world. Even in the European Union, the gender gap is widest (with difference) in the domain of power.
https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/leadership-and-political-participation/facts-and-figures
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/08/women-leaders-around-the-world/
https://eige.europa.eu/gender-equality-index/2019/domain/power
well, we had all our projects cancelled or postponed, got quarantined or lockdowned and wanted to do something productive with our time.
also, we share the intense desire that the world may learn more than just hygiene from this crisis.
we wanted to contribute what little we can so when we eventually leave this behind, we don't go back to the same destructive system of capitalist economies running at breakneck speed, global dependencies and most of us with little to no savings or securities to make it through a few months of standstill.
we are relatively young. with the coming times of climate change and global disruption, this won't be the only breakdown of our lifetimes.
we don't want to sit there, 10 or 20 years down the line, when it all happens again, and wonder: could we have done something to learn from this crisis? to build a better, more secure and stable, social and responsible future?
MINIMUM OPACITY IS a creative information format developed by ANNIKA MÜLLER, ALEXANDER tank and simon reichel.
corona math is A haus acf PRODUCTION
written, directed and produced by
simon reichel
annika müller
alexander tank
Thomas Pope
CORONA & women
The Corona pandemic amplifies gender inequalities.
It is crucial to understand and acknowledge how women are disproportionately affected throughout and beyond this crisis.
juxtaposing data on corona and women, published on 02nd apr 2020 with the most current numbers available at the time.
Video footage courtesy of:
tom elliott
felix pitscheneder
alexander tank
luftbild
featuring:
lily inge newmark
soundtrack:
chris banks
At the time of writing, information on the Coronavirus Crisis grows and changes almost by the hour. Therefore, we stamped our films and images with the time of publication. We researched our numbers with due diligence, but given the uncertainty of the topics, contradicting information exists. We chose the sources we thought most authoritative on the given subject. Below are the claims used in our material with source reference provided for each number.
90% of the world’s school children now need to be educated and supervised at home.
-
86% of all single parents are women.
UNESCO reports that at the time of writing, 89% of the world's student population are affected by nationwide school closures - over 1.5 million in numbers.
https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse
In an article for Education Next, Ludger Woessmann collects data to arrive at the conservative estimate that at least 86% of single parents worldwide are women.
https://www.educationnext.org/international-look-single-parent-family/
Women do over 75% of unpaid care work worldwide
Published by the International Labour Organization. The Number even rises to 80% in Asia and the Pacific.
https://www.ilo.org/asia/media-centre/news/WCMS_633284/lang--en/index.htm
70% of professional health and social care worldwide is provided by women
From an analysis on gender equity in the health workforce in 104 countries, published by the World Health Organization in 2019.
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/311314/WHO-HIS-HWF-Gender-WP1-2019.1-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Women still earn 19% less than men
From the International Labour Organization's Global Wage Report.
https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/multimedia/maps-and-charts/enhanced/WCMS_650829/lang--en/index.htm
1 in 3 women suffers violence in her lifetime
The UN WOMEN estimates that 35 per cent of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or sexual violence by a non-partner (not including sexual harassment [!]) at some point in their lives.
https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/facts-and-figures
Domestic abuse cases
rose by 36% within 8 days of lockdown in Paris
and tripled within a month in Jingzhou, China
These numbers are preliminary as results are only starting to come in and are expected by experts to rise further.
https://www.axios.com/china-domestic-violence-coronavirus-quarantine-7b00c3ba-35bc-4d16-afdd-b76ecfb28882.html
https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/28/domestic-violence-cases-jump-30-during-lockdown-in-france
The politicians confronting Corona will write history
-
Less than 25% of all parliamentarians
less than 10% of all national leaders
are women
There is extensive research on the gender power gap which is shockingly slow in closing across the world. Even in the European Union, the gender gap is widest (with difference) in the domain of power.
https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/leadership-and-political-participation/facts-and-figures
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/08/women-leaders-around-the-world/
https://eige.europa.eu/gender-equality-index/2019/domain/power
well, we had all our projects cancelled or postponed, got quarantined or lockdowned and wanted to do something productive with our time.
also, we share the intense desire that the world may learn more than just hygiene from this crisis.
we wanted to contribute what little we can so when we eventually leave this behind, we don't go back to the same destructive system of capitalist economies running at breakneck speed, global dependencies and most of us with little to no savings or securities to make it through a few months of standstill.
we are relatively young. with the coming times of climate change and global disruption, this won't be the only breakdown of our lifetimes.
we don't want to sit there, 10 or 20 years down the line, when it all happens again, and wonder: could we have done something to learn from this crisis? to build a better, more secure and stable, social and responsible future?
MINIMUM OPACITY IS a creative information format developed by ANNIKA MÜLLER, ALEXANDER tank and simon reichel.
corona math is A haus acf PRODUCTION
written, directed and produced by
simon reichel
annika müller
alexander tank
Thomas Pope