Analysis and Insights

A gender-responsive policy and fiscal response to the pandemic

Jashodhara Dasgupta and Sona Mitra

https://www.genderandcovid-19.org/

2020

Journal Article

Health

It is important to include women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex+ persons in the monitoring and accountability mechanisms of the government. A policy that is based on gender concerns and a gender-sensitive fiscal response to the ongoing health crisis as well as the period after that is the need of the hour.