IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palscp/978-3-030-79500-9_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

‘Woe unto Them That Are with Child’: Gender and Influenza

In: The Spanish Flu in Ireland

Author

Listed:
  • Patricia Marsh

Abstract

This chapter considers the question: did gender play a part in one’s susceptibility to influenza? The role of women during the pandemic, as in many other areas, has gone unnoticed, but women played an important part in combating influenza. They were the main care givers within the home, looking after family members who contracted influenza and many worked in both a voluntary and professional level as nurses. They also stepped up to the mark by working in munitions and other factories during the war. As the title suggests, pregnant women were deemed to be at particular risk from influenza. Their susceptibility to the disease and subsequent mortality is explored. Female activity such as nursing along with one of the main areas of female employment in Ulster, factory work are also examined to ascertain if women were more at risk during 1918.

Suggested Citation

  • Patricia Marsh, 2021. "‘Woe unto Them That Are with Child’: Gender and Influenza," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Spanish Flu in Ireland, chapter 0, pages 71-95, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-79500-9_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-79500-9_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-79500-9_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.