Gender studies

Pathology

Sociology

Disease

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Mathematics

Economic growth

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Criminology

Pandemic

Outbreak

Social inequality

Mathematical analysis

Political science

Virology

Economics

Masculinity

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Computer science

Socioeconomics

Inequality

Development economics

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Computer security

Medicine

Vulnerability (computing)

Critical Sociology

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated existing inequalities within countries and across geographies. It reminded us how the world and its people are interconnected. Gender-based violence (GBV), which is an expression of gender inequality and toxic masculinity, is another pandemic that exists in all societies at varying degrees of prevalence and severity. 1 It requires the same effort and attention that governments globally have given to COVID-19. With half the world under lockdown as governments’ response to COVID-19, GBV increased significantly (UN Women, 2020a). The increase was a reminder of the need to have contingent mitigating mechanism to protect the marginalized, women and girls, against a co-existing pandemic, GBV. The intersection of marginalization and discrimination made certain groups of women more susceptible to GBV and COVID-19 pandemics. These intersecting social identities of vulnerability need equal attention in order to eradicate inequality (Simonovic, 2020).

Gender-Based Violence, Twin Pandemic to COVID-19