RULING THE WEEK
The data tell us that men are more likely to die from coronavirus. The data also tell us that, around the world, women are suffering more from the pandemic’s social and economic fallout.
In a POLITICO Magazine op-ed published Friday morning, David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, and Sheryl Sandberg, founder of LeanIn.org and COO of Facebook, write about how coronavirus is disproportionately hitting women and girls around the world, including upending access to maternal health, jeopardizing care-givers and increasing the risk of domestic violence. (Both IRC and LeanIn.org have produced original data on the gender impact of Covid-19.)
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“If governments, companies and nonprofits address this reality, we can protect and even advance the gains we’ve made in the global struggle for equality,” they write. “If not, we will move backward.”
In a Zoom conversation with Sheryl and David Thursday, I asked them about what drove them to write the op-ed, and how to keep women and girls from falling behind for decades to come. Here are some highlights from our conversation, edited for clarity:
On coming to grips with the magnitude of this problem …
Miliband, referring to a recent United Nations appeal for global action on coronavirus, which included little about the gender impact of the crisis: “The idea that all but one UN agency has failed to recognize the double, triple, quadruple inequalities that women and girls face in emergency situations told me that for all the rhetoric we have seen over the last five, 10, 15 years, we are miles away from getting the kind of implementation and prioritization that ... women’s protection and empowerment deserve. We’re a long way from Women Rule, I’m afraid.”
On what happens to women during crises …
Sandberg: “Most hardships, most crises, most wars, most famines, most economic downturns affect women and girls more than men and boys. And there’s a reason for that: structural inequality. … Women do the majority of the world’s work, they earn a very small fraction of the world’s salaries, and they own even less of the world’s property. … Women and girls have the least access to resources. Women and girls are victims of violence, whether it’s domestic violence or mass rape, [and] we know that domestic violence and violence against women spike in any crisis.”
Miliband: “We can’t rely on a rising tide to lift men and women equally, but we can certainly be sure that when the tide goes down, it affects men and women disproportionately.”
Some secondary consequences the world needs to be thinking about …
Sandberg: “In most of the world, the only access to health care women get is around childbirth. … But when health resources are scarce, like in times like coronavirus, that access goes down. … We’re going to have more maternal deaths. We’re going to have more early child deaths. We’re going to have more mass problems for women and girls in getting access to contraception. … That needs to be front and center in the world’s response.”
Miliband: “Ninety percent of kids are out of school now. We know that 130 million children in the countries that we work in — fragile and conflict states — were out of school before the crisis even started. But if you don’t make special efforts to get the remote services to the girls and then get the girls back into school, we know from the evidence that they’re not going to go back. So you see a reversal of gains.”
Potential solutions …
Miliband: “The easiest thing to fix is to put more money into it. I’m not a person who thinks that money solves all these things, but when 0.12 percent of the global humanitarian budget is spent on gender-based violence, you’re never going to be able to come to terms with the problem.
“Underneath that, you have to start from the beginning. You have to start from gender disaggregation when it comes to services. You’ve got to make sure your teams are properly balanced. … You’ve got to make sure also that the distinctive needs of women and girls are properly recognized in mainstream programs. … Don’t rob maternity services to put them into Covid services. ... Make sure that the remote education reaches the girls in the family, not just the boys.”
Sandberg: “What we’re arguing for is, at every level, in every country, a gender lens on this.”
-- More on Covid-19 inequality: “When Mom’s Zoom Meeting Is the One That Has to Wait: ‘The way we’ve been able to MacGyver a career as a woman is completely under attack by a global pandemic,’” by Jennifer Medina and Lisa Lerer NYT
-- More on maternal health: “What women need most after giving birth, especially now,” by Kristen Rogers: “The postnatal period is ... an underserved aspect of maternity care, receiving less funding, service and attention from health providers, according to a new review on what matters most to women after giving birth, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE. Add to that a worrisome pandemic, and it becomes even more crucial to prioritize a woman's well-being during this time of adjustment.” CNN … “Pregnant and Scared of ‘Covid Hospitals,’ They’re Giving Birth at Home,” by Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura NYT
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS -- On Tuesday, NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman — the first woman to lead a global exchange — will join POLITICO chief economic correspondent Ben White for a virtual “Morning Money” interview at 9 a.m. ET. They’ll discuss everything from how the coronavirus pandemic has set global financial markets on a rollercoaster and the latest efforts to re-open the U.S. economy. Register to watch here
-- On Thursday at 4 p.m., Anna will talk with guest Carolyn Witte, CEO and co-founder of the women’s health care startup Tia, to discuss how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting women’s health. Register here
ICYMI -- Check out this week’s Women Rule virtual briefing with Sally Krawcheck, CEO and co-founder of Ellevest, an investment platform designed by women for women. Krawcheck talked about how women should think about investing in the wake of the coronavirus, why it’s important to be in charge of your own investments and what policies, like paid family leave, she thinks could make a difference for the future. Watch the video
THE TRUST PROBLEM -- “Trump coronavirus response feeds distrust in black and Latino communities,” by Laura Barrón-López: “Generations of distrust in the health care system have accumulated particularly among African Americans but also Latinos, she said — a long-standing issue based on a history of medical abuses dating to slavery that’s now burst to the fore, with dangerous consequences. ...
“Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.) said Latino and black residents in her heavily minority South Florida district aren’t getting information they need to understand the pandemic and the steps they need to take to protect themselves. …
“Powell added that the dearth of female and minority messengers could have negative consequences. ‘This is a systemic problem across health care and many other industries where we don’t see enough people of color, women of color in particular in positions of power and authority,’ said Powell, the executive director of Time's Up Healthcare, a nonprofit foundation. ‘And that could certainly impact the way these vital public health messages fall on the ears of those of us in minority communities.’” POLITICO
VEEPSTAKES -- Senator Kamala Harris told Joe Madison that she’s focused on coronavirus, but she would be “honored to serve if asked.” Stacey Abrams said on “The View” that she would be concerned if Biden didn’t pick a woman of color for the job, “because women of color — particularly black women — are the strongest part of the Democratic Party, the most loyal.” Biden has said he expects to have a short list of three contenders by July.
#METOO LATEST -- “Tara Reade’s Biden allegation fractures #MeToo movement,” by Holly Otterbein and Marc Caputo: “After making it more socially acceptable for sexual assault survivors to come forward and helping bring down dozens of powerful men, the #MeToo movement is facing a new challenge: how to grapple with the allegations against [Joe] Biden without tearing itself apart. Celebrity #MeToo activists have publicly fought over Reade’s claims.
“Supporters of President Donald Trump, who has been accused of sexual assault and misconduct by multiple women, have seized on Biden and other Democrats’ past comments about believing women’s accusations as proof of hypocrisy. And victims fear that what they see as the botched handling of Reade’s allegations by fellow activists, the media and politicians has threatened one of the movement’s hardest-fought gains.” POLITICO
NEW WOMEN RULE PODCAST -- This week, Anna talked with Fidji Simo, head of the Facebook app, about tech, coronavirus and Facebook’s response to misinformation and anti-quarantine protests. … Highlights:
-- On how to get more women into tech: “I think what women need right now is a little fewer very nice coffees where the guys can pat themselves on the back for having spent 20 minutes with a woman, and a little bit more doors opened and, you know, someone in the room pushing for that woman not being overlooked for that opportunity. And that's what I'm trying to do. And I think this is really the point of having women in leadership positions is that they can slowly but surely change the discussions that happen in the room, and make sure that they look out for the women, make sure that they put the spotlight on the magic that women can bring to the table.”
-- On Facebook’s decision to block anti-quarantine protesters from organizing on the site: “We've always had this policy around misinformation that can lead to imminent harm. And every time we saw this type of misinformation, we took it down. In this case ... the imminent harm is very real and very tangible. And so we’ve wanted to take a very aggressive approach to make sure that our platform would connect people with authoritative information and would steer them away from anything that could cause harm.” Subscribe and listen here … Read the story
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN -- “Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others,” by S.V. Date: “Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of eldest son Donald Trump Jr., and Lara Trump, wife of middle son Eric Trump, are each receiving $15,000 a month, according to two GOP sources who are informal White House advisers and who spoke on condition of anonymity. They were unsure when the payments began but say they are being made by campaign manager Bradley Parscale through his company rather than directly by either the campaign or the party in order to avoid public reporting requirements.” HuffPo
CORONAVIRUS IN COURT -- “Nurses lawsuit: New York failed to protect health care workers and the public,” by Amanda Eisenberg: “In the suits, first reported by POLITICO, the state’s largest nursing union alleges the health department issued guidance directing health care workers who contracted Covid-19 return to work after seven days, despite emergency regulations that allow them to stay home for two weeks. Nurses and other frontline workers told POLITICO that unless they could prove they had the virus with an actual test, some hospitals required them to use their accrued paid time off.” POLITICO
SAD NEWS -- “Elizabeth Warren's brother dies from coronavirus,” by Quint Forgey POLITICO … “Maxine Waters says her sister is dying of coronavirus” POLITICO
JACINDA’S PLAYBOOK -- “New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet,” by Uri Friedman: “The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest test of political leadership the world has ever witnessed. Every leader on the planet is facing the same potential threat. Every leader is reacting differently, in his or her own style. And every leader will be judged by the results.
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel embraces science. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rejects it. U.S. President Donald Trump’s daily briefings are a circuslike spectacle, while Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds no regular briefings at all, even as he locks down 1.3 billion people.
“Jacinda Ardern, the 39-year-old prime minister of New Zealand, is forging a path of her own. Her leadership style is one of empathy in a crisis that tempts people to fend for themselves. Her messages are clear, consistent, and somehow simultaneously sobering and soothing. And her approach isn’t just resonating with her people on an emotional level. It is also working remarkably well.” The Atlantic
WHAT RULERS ARE READING
ESSENTIAL WOMEN -- “How Millions of Women Became the Most Essential Workers in America,” by Campbell Robertson and Robert Gebeloff: “Every day, Constance Warren stands behind the cold cuts counter at a grocery store in New Orleans, watching the regular customers come and go. They thank Ms. Warren and tell her they do not like being stuck indoors, waiting out the epidemic. She wraps their honey-smoked turkey and smiles. It is good to have a job right now, the mixed fortune of being deemed an essential worker. But she wonders whether, once everyday life is safe again, people will remember the role she played when it was not. ‘Don’t forget that we were open to serve you in your time of need,’ she said on a break one recent workday afternoon. ‘You never know when you might need us again.’
“From the cashier to the emergency room nurse to the drugstore pharmacist to the home health aide taking the bus to check on her older client, the soldier on the front lines of the current national emergency is most likely a woman. One in three jobs held by women has been designated as essential, according to a New York Times analysis of census data crossed with the federal government’s essential worker guidelines. Nonwhite women are more likely to be doing essential jobs than anyone else. The work they do has often been underpaid and undervalued — an unseen labor force that keeps the country running and takes care of those most in need, whether or not there is a pandemic.” NYT
ROLE REVERSAL? -- “Women at the Frontlines of COVID-19 Might Be Starting the Gender Role Reversal of the Century,” by Brianna Wiest: “According to new research from Matthias Doepke and Jane Olmstead-Rumsey of Northwestern University, Titan Alon of the University of California San Diego and Michèle Tertilt of the University of Mannheim, the COVID-19 crisis might generate change in gender norms that defines our new ‘normal’ in the decades to come. In the same way that WWII shifted these roles by putting more women in the workforce, COVID-19 is spurring a surge of male caregivers, as women make up the majority of ‘essential’ jobs. While women may be enduring the worst of the crisis at present, it might lead to male caretakers becoming more normal. ...
“‘The economic downturn caused by the current COVID-19 outbreak has substantial implications for gender equality, both during the downturn and the subsequent recovery,’ they wrote in the paper. ‘Beyond the immediate crisis, there are opposing forces which may ultimately promote gender equality in the labor market. First, businesses are rapidly adopting flexible work arrangements, which are likely to persist. Second, there are also many fathers who now have to take primary responsibility for child care, which may erode social norms that currently lead to a lopsided distribution of the division of labor in house work and child care.’” Forbes
WHO COUNTS? -- “The Census Needs to Count Women. The Pandemic Makes That Harder,” by Emma Goldberg: “A 2018 survey from the Census Bureau showed that fewer women than men intended to participate in the census. And it found that Hispanic, black and Asian-American women were even less likely than white women to say they’re ‘extremely likely’ to participate, with Asian-American women the least certain about their intent to participate.
“Researchers were troubled by the gender gap because census data is used to determine nearly $1 trillion in federal spending, including numerous services geared specifically toward women like grants for the prevention of gender-based violence, grants for the prevention of family violence and nutritional programs for women. …
“One explanation for the gender gap, at least in the survey, may be something both simple and relatable: American women are busy. Dr. Catherine Harnois, a sociologist at Wake Forest University, said that women’s intent to fill out the census could be affected by their lack of discretionary hours in the day. Outside of their careers, she said, women working a ‘second shift’ as family caregivers for children and the elderly may simply not have time. That may be compounded today by the pandemic — with children home from school and family members falling ill, many women feel as if they’re working multiple jobs.” NYT
AROUND THE WORLD -- “A movement to pass mothers’ last names to their children is gaining traction in China,” via Quartz ... “As Poland defies ‘European values,’ women resist on streets and online,” via CNN … “Kim Jong Un’s Sister Could Replace Him If He Dies. Who Is Kim Yo Jong?” via Vice
HOW TO HELP -- “6 Ways to Volunteer Amid Coronavirus,” via The Cut ... “How you can help during the coronavirus outbreak,” WaPo
SPOTLIGHT -- “Melania Trump, a most private first lady, finds her voice in a stay-at-home pandemic,” by Jada Yuan: “For much of her tenure as perhaps the most press-shy first lady in modern American history, Trump has seemed uncomfortable with the speaking engagements and public appearances that have long been the tradition in her unpaid and unelected position. She rarely campaigned for her husband in 2016, often talks to children rather than adults at her Be Best initiative events, and almost never gives media interviews.
“Yet the past month, with the pandemic requiring her messaging to come from a more controlled, stay-at-home environment, her Twitter and Instagram feed have become all-coronavirus-all-the-time. And for the first time in nearly 3½ years, the first lady seems to have found her voice. It is a voice that sometimes directly contradicts her husband, who said ‘we can’t have the cure be worse than the problem’ when talking about favoring reopening the economy. He also opposed a bailout of the U.S. Postal Service and refuses to be seen in a face mask.” WaPo
-- “Brittany Howard’s Transformation,” via The New Yorker
LET LOOSE -- “FOMO Is Over. Give In to the Joy of Letting Go,” by Ruth La Ferla: “What I have learned during this interval is that it can be liberating, even enlightening, to sign on with a sisterhood — people of varying ages, racial and social backgrounds, professions, and styles, openly engaging in a little self-neglect. We may be reminded of Germaine Greer, who famously said: ‘If a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?’ For years, outrageous social media displays have aggravated FOMO, the Fear of Missing Out. Now we can revel in the Joy of Letting Go, technically JOLGO, but, amalgamated with You Only Live Once: JOLO!” NYT
IN MEMORIAM -- “Cheryl A. Wall, 71, Dies; Champion of Black Literary Women,” by Sam Roberts: “In a teaching career of nearly five decades, Dr. Wall championed racial diversity both in the curriculum and the classroom. She encouraged more black students to major in English and pursue postgraduate degrees. And she widened the scope of literary scholarship to include black novelists, poets and nonfiction authors as well as essayists, whom she considered central to the black literary tradition.” NYT
BOOK CLUB -- “Kathleen Collins’s Otherworldly Women,” via The New Yorker ... “The Better Half: ‘On the Genetic Superiority of Women’ review – bold study of chromosomal advantage,” via The Guardian
IN PRAISE OF THE UPTIGHT FIANCÉE -- “Someday My Prince Will Leave Me for Someone More Low-Key,” by Alexis Soloski: “Enchanted,” a 2007 Disney release, “stars Amy Adams as Giselle, a fairy-tale princess stranded in contemporary New York. Patrick Dempsey plays Robert, the divorce lawyer whose heart she manually defrosts. ‘Enchanted’ has catchy songs, poufy dresses, a chipmunk sidekick. It is, in most meaningful ways, delightful.
“But ‘Enchanted’ also has maybe my least favorite romantic-comedy trope, the tightly wound fiancée. Before Dempsey’s Robert can kiss the girl, he has to uncouple from Idina Menzel’s Nancy. We know that she and Robert can never be together. Because unlike Giselle, the unemployed, recently animated naïf flouncing around Robert’s prewar apartment, Nancy, a successful fashion designer, wants things. She wants dates and commitment and real flowers, not the ones Robert usually sends via e-card. (What? It was 2007, e-cards were a thing.) ...
“Undergirding these characters, almost all of them created by men, is a troubling male fantasy, that the ideal woman will depend on a man almost entirely, but ask nothing from him and that women who do ask are too much trouble. Who decided that women who know what they want and ask for it are monsters and that men who don’t know and don’t ask are simps? Clichés like these efface the complications of real relationships. Sometimes we leave nice people. Sometimes nice people leave us. And maybe assertive, uptight women don’t even need a man to live happily ever after. But if they want one, they should get him.” NYT
DISTRACT YOURSELF -- “Embracing the Chaotic Side of Zoom,” via The New Yorker ... “As an Experienced Stress Baker, I Have Never Felt Less Like Making Bread,” via Self ... “Here Are the New Movies You Can Watch on Demand at Home,” via Vulture
WOMEN RULERS
TRANSITIONS -- A few changes in the East Wing staff: Marcia Lee Kelly, previously director of White House management and administration and director of the Office of Administration, will be senior adviser to the first lady. Emma Doyle will be joining the First Lady's Office as deputy chief of staff for policy. Doyle was previously principal deputy chief of staff in the West Wing.
WISDOM OF THE WEEK -- AG, host of “Muller, She Wrote” and “The Daily Beans”: "Be kind to everyone you meet. At a certain level in comedy, podcasting, music, and the arts, everyone is funny or talented. You’ll be remembered by how kind you were, and you’ll also be remembered for how kind you weren’t. There are two things you can never know: how successful someone might be in the future, and what someone else is going through. People will never forget how you made them feel, and in both cases, kindness always wins the day.” Connect with AG here.
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