Women bear disproportionate share of Covid-19 burden, U.N. official warns

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Homeschooling or work 'shouldn't be a choice any woman, or any family, should ever have to make,' the U.N.'s Amina Mohammed said.

analysis by the consulting firm McKinsey & Company

Clare Wenham, assistant professor of global health policy at the London School of Economics, said that could be because industries in which many women work – restaurants, markets and tourism – have been decimated by the global lockdowns.

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