Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic from a gender perspective |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, New Taipei, Taiwan;2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan;3. Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan;4. Institute of Mechatronic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan;5. Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, College of Public Health and Nutrition, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan;6. Department of Emergency, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | Under the threat of the new coronavirus pandemic, women have been uniquely impacted financially, economically, and socially. However, in terms of disease incidence and lethality, women perform better than men. The main reason is that, in addition to women's own hormonal protection, women's immune systems are superior to those of men. Women also exhibit more protective behavior (e.g., hand-washing) and more closely follow protection guidelines, which greatly reduces the chance of infection. In the future, more studies that adopt a gender perspective are needed to understand the various dilemmas faced by women in infectious diseases and pandemics; only then can women demonstrate better outcomes. |
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| Keywords: | Coronavirus Women COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Gender |
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