The COVID-19 Pandemic and Women in Medicine and Science: Contributions and Impact

• The Pandemic and the Female Academic.
• Why Do Women Make Such Good Leaders during COVID-19?
• How Millions of Women Became the Most Essential Workers in America.
• UN Secretary-General’s Policy Brief: The Impact Of COVID-19 On Women.
• COVID-19 Resources for VAWG Mitigation and Prevention, Self and Collective Care, Assistance and More.
• An Equity-Based Approach to Dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Coronavirus Reveals Just How Deep Macho Stereotypes Run through Society.
• No Room of One's Own.
• Women Academics Seem to be Submitting Fewer Papers During Coronavirus.
• Trump Team Moves to Scrap Protections for LGBTQ Patients.
• Our Response to COVID-19 is Male-Centric.
• Virtual Event Recording – “Supporting Women Academics During COVID.”

Stories of Women Who Have Made Critical Coronavirus-Related Scientific Discoveries and Inventions:

• Dr. June Almeida first discovered a coronavirus in 1964 at her laboratory in St Thomas's Hospital in London.
  • The Woman Who Discovered the First Coronavirus.
• The COVID-19 Dashboard at Johns Hopkins was launched by Lauren Gardner, a civil and systems engineering professor.
• The inventor whose discoveries while working at 3M led to development of the N95 mask was a woman, Sara Little Turnbull.
  • How One Woman Inspired the Design for the N95 Mask.

Gender Inequities During COVID-19:

• Collateral Damage: How COVID-19 is Adversely Impacting Women Physicians. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2020 Aug;15(8):507.
• Vincent-Lamarre P, Sugimoto CR, Larivière V. The Decline of Women's Research Production during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Nature Index. 19 May 2020.
• Cardel MI, Dean N, Montoya-Williams D. Preventing a Secondary Epidemic of Lost Early Career Scientists. Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women with Children. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2020 Nov;17(11):1366-70.
• Narayana S, Roy B, Merriam S, Yecies E, Lee RS, Mitchell JL, Gottlieb AS. Minding the Gap: Organizational Strategies to Promote Gender Equity in Academic Medicine during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2020 Dec;35(12):3681-4. 
• Miller KA, Mannix R, Schmitz G, Monuteaux MC, Lee LK. Impact of COVID-19 on Professional and Personal Responsibilities of Massachusetts Physicians. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2020 Nov 1;38(11):2365-7.
• Kibbe MR. Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Manuscript Submissions by Women. JAMA Surgery. 2020 Sep 1;155(9):803-4.
• Cevik M, Haque SA, Manne-Goehler J, Kuppalli K, Sax PE, Majumder MS, Orkin C. Gender Disparities in COVID-19 Clinical Trial Leadership. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 2021 Jan.