{"id":33519,"date":"2021-06-28T14:15:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T05:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/28\/india-covid-gender-gap-women-left-behind-in-vaccination-drive"},"modified":"2021-06-28T14:15:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T05:15:44","slug":"indias-covid-gender-gap-women-left-behind-in-vaccination-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33519","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Covid gender gap: women left behind in vaccination drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Misinformation and access issues combined with patriarchal social norms fuelling disparity in distribution across most states<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Deep-rooted structural inequalities and patriarchal values are to blame for India\u2019s worrying Covid vaccine gender gap, campaigners and academics have warned.<\/p>\n<p>As of 25 June, of the 309m Covid vaccine doses delivered since January 2021, 143m were administered to women compared with nearly 167m to men, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/dashboard.cowin.gov.in\/\">CoWin<\/a>, India\u2019s national statistics site \u2013 a ratio of 856 doses given to<strong> <\/strong>women for every 1,000 given to men. The difference is not accounted for by India\u2019s gender imbalance of <a href=\"https:\/\/population.un.org\/wpp\/Download\/Standard\/Population\/\">924 women to 1,000 men<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/28\/india-covid-gender-gap-women-left-behind-in-vaccination-drive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misinformation and access issues combined with patriarchal social norms fuelling disparity in distribution across most statesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDeep-rooted structural inequalities and patriarchal values are to b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,646,59,346,62,1203,914,984,958,552,61,565,281,1792,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-gender","category-global-development","category-health","category-india","category-inequality","category-infectious-diseases","category-menstruation","category-poverty","category-social-exclusion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-women","category-womens-health","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33520,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33519\/revisions\/33520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}