The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19 is the first comprehensive research guide for researchers and students who seek to study and evaluate the complex relationship between gender and COVID-19, and is an essential volume for scholars and students of Law, Gender Studies, Sociology, Health, Economics and Politics.

PART I. TRAINING A GENDER LENS ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 1. Introduction to Researching Gender and COVID-19 2. Law as a Determinant of Health: COVID-19 & Gender 3. Health Justice: Feminism, Universalism, and Vulnerability in Pandemic Response 4. We Are Not in This Together: Toward a Feminist Public Finance PART II. FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES 5. Gender, COVID, and Care 6. Pandemics, Privatization, and Public Education 7. Pandemic Impact and Women's Resilience in China 8. Mind the Gap: The Promise and Perils of Technology and Courts During COVID-19 Naomi M. Mann 9. Lessons from Pandemic Co-Parenting: Toward Family Mediation that Centers Low-Income, Never-Married Black Mothers 10. Queer Inequality: The COVID-19 Spotlight PART III. ECONOMY, LABOR, AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION 11. Care and Economic Crisis 12. COVID-19 and Vulnerable Groups: Experiences of Sexual Minorities in Barbados 13. Does the EU COVID-19 Recovery Plan Care About Care? 14. The Resilience of Gender Equality: How COVID-19 Was Gendered in Norway 15. Manufacturing Crisis, Exacerbating Vulnerabilities: A Feminist Perspective on Crisis, Calamity, and the Political Economy of Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic 16. COVID-19 She-Cession: The Employment Penalty of Childcare 17. After the "Shecession": Post-Pandemic Law and Policy for Working Mothers 18. Gender Inequality and the Increase of Unpaid Care Work in Mexico During the COVID-19 Pandemic PART IV. HEALTH 19. HIV Activism's Lessons for Fighting COVID 20. Masculinity, Partisanship, and Responses to COVID-19 in the U.S. 21. Gendered Effects of U.S. Pandemic Border Policy on Migrants From Central America 22. Gender and Human Rights in the Context of COVID-19 23. Lockdowns, Gender, and Health PART V. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH 24. The Resilience of Reproductive Rights 25. Reproductive Justice for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond 26. The Shift of Medication Abortion Care Delivery Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on the Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health in the United States 27. Abortion Access in a Post-COVID and Post-Roe World 28. Religious Exemptions and Gender Equality in a Pandemic 29. Impact of COVID-19 on the Reproductive Rights of Marginalized Women in India 30. Access to Abortion During Covid-19 in India: Gaps and Challenges PART VI. POLITICS AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP 31. Sharing is Caring: Women of Color California State Legislators Take to Facebook During COVID-19 Lockdowns as a Form of Constituent Services 32. Women's Leadership is Associated with Few COVID-19 Deaths and Better Communication 33. Leadership in the Lands Down Under? A Comparative Print Media Analysis of the Morrison and Ardern Government COVID-19 Responses 34. The Gendered Effects of Covid in Colombia: Looking Beyond the Numbers 35. COVID-19, International Trade Law and the Gendered Dimensions of the Global Vaccine Apartheid: A Rights-Based Analysis