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According to Health Canada statistics more than half of COVID-19 cases among Canadians aged 20-59 are women. Answer the following: (a) Provide some details of gendered division of COVID-19 cases. (b) Describe how the gendered division of COVID-19 cases relates to industrial and occupation segregation in Canada (providing specific examples and evidence). (c) Serious illness due to COVID-19 could lead to large interruptions in a person's career. Describe the impact of this interruption on future earnings. Include a discussion of factors that would affect the magnitude and duration of the impact. Include consideration for job-protected sick leave.
a) gender disaggregated data for the covid-19 cases show equal
numbers between men and women. Their scenes sex differences in the
mortality rate and vulnerability rate. Upcoming evidences suggest
that more men are dying in compared to women mainly due to the
immunity differences or gender differences like the patterns of the
prevalence of smoking.
b) working life in Canada hai dramatic change in covid-19. Issues
regarding the gender wage gap of the gender discrimination have
rised.in this pandemic different systematic issues like care work
devalued and in other fields of female dominance.also rising case
of gender-based violence leading to women being more vulnerable to
the economic hardship. Women being forced to more difficult
circumstances of the gender based violence.
c) severe illness due to covid-19 carrying large interruption to
the carrier of a person.long term holidays apply to those being
affected by covid-19 leading to losing their jobs. The treatment is
costly which is at times unbearable for the people.also many
organisations have cut off on their salaries for have fired from
work.Organisations have weird losses all these have a severe impact
on the future earnings. Savings gets demolished. Income reduced.
Treatment grasping lots of savings. Job losses having uncertainty
of the future earnings.