APRIL 30 — Early signs are that the Covid-19 virus poses a greater direct health risk to men, and particularly older men. But the pandemic is exposing and exploiting inequalities of all kinds, including gender inequality. In the long term, its impact on women’s health, rights and freedoms could...
APRIL 30 — Early signs are that the Covid-19 virus poses a greater direct health risk to men, and particularly older men. But the pandemic is exposing and exploiting inequalities of all kinds, including gender inequality. In the long term, its impact on women’s health, rights and freedoms could harm us all.
Every country can take action by moving services online, expanding domestic violence shelters and designating them as essential, and increasing support to frontline organisations. The United Nations’ partnership with the European Union, the Spotlight Initiative is working with governments in more than 25 countries on these and similar measures, and stands ready to expand its support.
But decades later, Covid-19 threatens to bring back these conditions and worse, for many women around the world. And let’s not forget the girls who have had their education cut short. In some villages in Sierra Leone, school enrolment rates for teenage girls fell from 50 to 34 per cent after the Ebola epidemic, with lifelong implications for their wellbeing and that of their communities and societies.
We need women at the table when decisions are taken on this pandemic, to prevent worst-case scenarios like a second spike in infections, labour shortages, and even social unrest.
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