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Human rights express the innate and inviolable rights of human beings that arise solely from being human. Gender-based roles and stereotypes create discriminatory consequences between men and women in taking advantage of these rights. In this respect, while gender-based inequalities at the global level constitute an important agenda item before the pandemic, these inequalities deepen under the conditions created by the pandemic. Throughout the world, gender-based inequalities, violence and abuse have increased during the pandemic process.
The United Kingdom both made a radical decision, unlike most countries by declaring that it would use the "herd immunity" method at the beginning of the epidemic and became the first country to decide to apply the vaccine. In this direction, the main purpose of the study is to reveal how the epidemic affects gender-based inequalities in the country. Secondary research, one of the types of data analysis conducted via the internet, was adopted in the study.
The main findings of the study are the increased exposure to domestic violence and abuse due to the pandemic causing women to be locked up at home with the perpetrators of domestic violence, women taking more responsibilities in domestic care than men, and the negative effects on their mental health and work-life as a result. It is another result of the study that the domestic labor burden is the invisible labor of women and the COVID-19 pandemic shows the importance of care policies.