This reflection considers recent United Nations’ normative developments in international human rights law and their potential to assess, with a gender perspective, retrogressive economic policies being promoted by International Financial Institutions (IFIs) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Orthodox and androcentric economic policies, such as structural adjustment, austerity, privatisation and deregulation of labour and financial markets, normally have devastating effects on women’s rights. Yet, the financial responses with which IFIs are trying to help states manage the effects of the pandemic seem to continue promoting those androcentric economic policies. This piece concludes that ex ante human rights and gender impact assessments of multilateral loans’ conditionalities should be conducted and that women’s participation in this process as well as access to adequate quantitative and qualitative data to understand the differentiated effects of those economic policies on gender equality, are crucial. These reflections were born out of the authors’ own family and country challenges.

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评估国际金融机构对 COVID-19 的反应的性别敏感性：居家（与孩子）在封锁中的反思

这一反思考虑了联合国最近在国际人权法方面的规范发展，以及它们在 COVID-19 大流行的背景下从性别角度评估国际金融机构 (IFI) 推动的倒退经济政策的潜力。正统和以男性为中心的经济政策，例如结构调整、紧缩、私有化以及放松对劳动力和金融市场的管制，通常会对妇女权利造成破坏性影响。然而，国际金融机构试图帮助各州应对疫情影响的金融应对措施似乎继续推动那些以男性为中心的经济政策。本文的结论是，应事先对多边贷款的条件进行人权和性别影响评估，妇女参与这一过程并获得足够的定量和定性数据，以了解这些经济政策对性别平等的不同影响，是至关重要的。这些反思源于作者自己的家庭和国家挑战。