The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on gender equality in Finland is a research project that provides information on the gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on different sociodemographic groups of women and men and its consequences for gender equality in Finland.
The project is divided into four work packages.
The goal of Work package 3: Gender impacts of economic policy is to produce multidimensional knowledge about the gender and gender equality impacts of Finland’s economic policy response to the Covid-19 crisis. The work package studies how the measures to compensate hardships experienced by individuals and companies affected different groups of women and men as well as addresses the broader gender equality impacts of Covid-19-related economic stimulus. The work package answers the following research questions:
- What kind of gendered and intersectional distributive impacts did changes to social security have?
- How were the subsidies to companies of different sizes allocated to female and male -dominated sectors?
- What kind of broader gender equality impacts did economic stimulus have and how were gender impacts taken into account in decision-making?
The work package uses microsimulation methods and data, building on earlier research on gendered distributive impacts and on distributive impacts of covid-19 policies. In addition, data on different corporate subsidies and broad documentary material will be utilized.
The project is funded by the Prime Minister’s Office.