2020 CAP Virtual Sessions / Sessions virtuelle de l'ACP 2020

Session

June 23 - CEWIP Annual Business Meeting (14h30-16h30)

CEWIP

8 Jun 2020, 09:30

Virtual Platforms

Conveners

June 23 - CEWIP Annual Business Meeting (14h30-16h30)

• Chitra Rangan (University of Windsor)

110. (14h35-14h55) -- How the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting women in STEM

Dr Megan Frederickson (University of Toronto / Harvard University)

08/06/2020, 09:33

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

The COVID-19 pandemic has touched everyone’s lives, but it has not affected everyone equally. Madonna called COVID-19 “the great equalizer,” but she was wrong: the risk and severity of the disease itself, and the pandemic’s economic and social impacts, vary with age, income, race, and gender. The pandemic has laid bare and often worsened many pre-existing inequalities in our world. One issue...