TOPLUMSAL CİNSİYET EŞİTSİZLİĞİ EKSENİNDE COVID -19 ve KADIN YOKSULLUĞU

Year 2023, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 422 - 430, 30.06.2023

Berna Ak Bingül , Rengin Ak , Armağan Türk

https://doi.org/10.29106/fesa.1258735

Abstract

Küresel bir salgın niteliği taşıyan Covid-19, yarattığı sağlık, ekonomik, sosyolojik ve psikolojik etkileriyle toplumsal olarak bu dönemde sosyal hayattan izole edilen ve yaşamda kalma mücadelesi içinde olan kadınları toplumsal cinsiyet eşitsizliği temelinde derin bir yoksulluk ile karşı karşıya bırakmıştır. Salgın, tüm dünyada yoksulluk sınırına yakın olan dezavantajlı konumdaki sosyal sınıfları ekonomik olarak zayıflatarak yoksullaşmalarına ve bu konuda yapılan çabaların ve özelikle cinsiyet eşitliği üzerinde gerileyici bir etkiye yol açmıştır. Pandemi sürecinde kısıtlamaların olduğu dönemde hane ilişkilerinde kadının üzerine düşen ev içi emek ve çocuk bakımı eğitimi, yaşlı bakımı ve her tür ev işleri gibi yüklerin artması ile kadınlar, hem iş hayatından uzaklaşırken ekonomik olarak zayıflamış hem de sağlık hizmetlerine erişim ve eğitimden uzaklaşmalarından dolayı derinleşen yoksulluk ile karşı karşıya kalmışlardır. Çalışmanın temel amacı, Covid-19 salgını nedeniyle kadınların iş-aile yaşam dengesizliğine dair yaşadıkları problemleri tespit etmektir. Kadın yoksulluğu olgusu, toplumsal cinsiyet eşitsizliği ekseninde gelir, eğitim, sağlık hizmetlerine erişim yoksunluğu ve cinsiyete dayalı şiddet deneyimleri çerçevesinde irdelenerek salgın nedeniyle derinleşen eşitsizlik ile nasıl mücadele edileceği ile ilgili çeşitli çözüm önerileri sunulmuştur..

Keywords

Kadın Yoksulluğu, Covid-19, Cinsiyet Eşitsizliği, Sağlık, Eğitim

COVID -19 AND WOMEN POVERTY IN THE AXIS OF GENDER INEQUALITY

Abstract

Being a global epidemic, Covid-19, with its health, economic, sociological, and psychological effects, has left women–who were socially isolated from social life in this period and struggling to survive–with deep poverty based on gender inequality. While the epidemic has economically weakened the disadvantaged social classes close to the poverty line, caused their impoverishment, and produced a regressive effect on the efforts made for gender equality. During the restrictions of the pandemic period, with the increase in household work, child care education, elderly care, and all kinds of household chores, women, moving away from business life, have been economically weakened and faced with deepened poverty due to their difficulties in access to health services and education. The primary purpose of the current study is to identify the problems experienced by women in work-family life imbalance due to the Covid-19 epidemic. The phenomenon of women’s poverty was examined within the framework of income, education, lack of access to health services, and gender-based violence experiences on the axis of gender inequality, and various solutions were offered on how to combat the inequality that deepened due to the epidemic.

Keywords

Women's Poverty, Covid-19, Gender Inequality, Health, Education

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