DENUDACIJA RODNE NERAVNOPRAVNOSTI U VREME PANDEMIJE – SLUČAJ STARIJIH ŽENA U REPUBLICI SRBIJI
DENUDATION OF GENDER INEQUALITY DURING THE PANDEMIC - THE CASE OF ELDERLY WOMEN IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the work is the analysis of everyday practices and challenges during the pandemic in Serbia from a female perspective with a focus on elderly women, given that the process of demographic aging is connective, while every fifth citizen in Serbia is over 65 years old, and that women are the majority among them. In its report on the impact of the pandemic, the UN identifies an increase in violence against women, additional marginalization of certain groups of women (elderly, Roma, women with disabilities, etc.), increased burden of household duties, a greater risk of job loss, and work in the most health-risky places. Similar tendencies are identified by research in Serbia(Fem Platz, Strength of Friendship Amity, Women's Support Center, Center for Mothers, Autonomous Women's Center, UNFPA Serbia, Red Cross of Serbia), as well as the Special Report on Discrimination of the Elderly by the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality and Women's Stories65+.The goal of the presentation is to point out the cause-and-effect relationship between poverty and the position of women (especially the elderly) who are more exposed to various forms of humiliating treatment, marginalization, discrimination, and violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Neglect and violence within the family (even up to femicide) is a burning problem that many women over 65 have encountered. It is emphasized that violence does not stop as they get older, but intensifies and becomes less visible. Their vulnerability intensified during the measures introduced against the COVID-19pandemic, gender discrimination became more frequent, and the overlap with other forms of discrimination intensified. It is concluded that globalization demonstrated the individual vulnerability in modern societies that the virus does not discriminate, but that the crisis it produced made the existing discriminatory inequalities more visible and seriously endangered the vulnerable and intersectionally threatened. The global pandemic has shown the cruel recklessness of neoliberalism, in which conditions that neglected health systems became powerless in the fight against mass infection, illness, and death of the population. It is also concluded that the health crisis produced multiple consequences in which elderly women live, economic, social, psychological, and personal in the resulting disharmony, the consequences of which will be felt for a long time.

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