More Than A Magazine, A Movement
With a threatened mass exodus of women from the work force, the pandemic is prompting a national conversation about the plight of working women and the issues that impede their success at work.
If greater attention is paid to these issues, this pandemic-fueled recession could enable the future inclusion of women in the workplace for three reasons.
Examining nursing homes, prisons, jails, psychiatric hospitals and immigration detention centers through a disability lens allows for creative redesigns that question the very function of these institutions. It’s time to unite the movements for abolition, decarceration and defunding police, and invest in long-term, community-based solutions—rather than disconnected, piecemeal reforms.
The coronavirus surge is likely to get worse over the coming weeks and months. The U.S. has a long history of taking on challenges and leading by example. We still have a chance to seize this unique moment to completely change the way we care for the health of our citizens.
The question of the role of politics in the administration of disease response had been front and center in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic from the virus’s early spread.
“Given the historic and seemingly abiding male-centric approach to clinical research, I’m concerned that the development of treatments for COVID-19 will again focus on men.”
The campaign to prove that abortion is not health care did not bring with the COVID-19 pandemic, and it won’t end there either.
