THE EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC PERIOD ON WOMEN THROUGH A FOCUS GROUP STUDY

Year 2023, Volume: 81 Issue: CUMHURİYET 100. YIL ÖZEL SAYISI, 465 - 496, 28.11.2023

Seldağ Güneş Peschke Irmak Dündar Anil Güven Yüksel Nildağ Ceylan Ayhan Kapusuzoğlu Lutz Peschke

https://doi.org/10.30915/abd.1318334

Abstract

Women have faced more difficulties than men in all the past centuries. In the last decade, although many steps have been taken to ensure equality between men and women, this gap has still not been fully closed.
After the announcement of the World Health Organisation (WHO) about the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, many countries around the world have introduced restrictive rules and measures to reduce the spread of the infection.
The sudden supply and demand contractions that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic process directly affected the economies and the health systems of the world deeply. One of the biggest effects of the pandemic was on women, especially in the lockdown periods domestic violence and sexual abuse towards women increased.
This article has been prepared under the pandevita project with the aim of minimizing the effects of pandemic on women for the similar situations in the future by showing the negativities experienced by women, from 5 systems of the quintuple helix collaboration model, through examples discussed in the focus group event. The paper identifies and brings solutions and suggestions, for women in the finance and labour market, decision-making processes, domestic work, who were very adversely affected after the first wave of the pandemic.

Keywords

women, pandemic, focus group event, covid 19

Supporting Institution

European Union

Project Number

101006316

Thanks

PandeVITA project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101006316.

PANDEMİ DÖNEMİNİN KADINLAR ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİLERİNİN ODAK GRUP ÇALIŞMASI ÜZERİNDEN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Abstract

Kadınlar geçtiğimiz yüzyıllar boyunca erkeklerden daha fazla zorlukla karşılaşmıştır. Son on yılda kadın-erkek eşitliğini sağlamaya yönelik birçok adım atılmış olsa da, bu açık hala tam olarak kapatılabilmiş değildir. Dünya Sağlık Örgütü'nün (WHO) 11 Mart 2020 tarihinde COVID-19 salgınını pandemi olarak ilan etmesinin ardından, dünya genelinde birçok ülke virüsün yayılmasını azaltmak için kısıtlayıcı kurallar ve önlemler getirmiştir. COVID-19 pandemi sürecinde meydana gelen ani arz ve talep daralmaları, dünya ekonomilerini ve sağlık sistemlerini doğrudan ve derinden etkilemiştir. Pandeminin en büyük etkilerinden biri de kadınlar üzerinde olmuş, özellikle karantina dönemlerinde aile içi şiddet ve kadına yönelik cinsel istismar sayılarında artişlar meydana gelmiştir. Bu makale AB Horizon 2020 kapsamında hibelendirilen, PandeVITA projesi kapsamında, odak grup etkinliğinde tartışılan örnekler üzerinden, beşli̇ sarmal i̇şbi̇rli̇ği̇ modeli̇ni̇n 5 si̇stemi̇nden gelen kadınların yaşadığı olumsuzlukları göstererek, gelecekte benzer durumlar için pandeminin kadınlar üzerindeki etkilerini en aza indirmek amacıyla hazırlanmıştır. Çalışma, pandeminin ilk dalgasından sonra çok olumsuz etkilenen finans ve işgücü piyasasında, karar alma süreçlerinde, ev işlerinde yer alan kadınların yaşadıkları olumsuzlukları belirleyerek, çözüm ve öneriler getirmektedir.

Keywords

kadın, pandemi, odak grup etkinliği, covid 19

Project Number

101006316

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