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Africa: Pandemic Makes The Gender Poverty Gap Wider - UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 2 September 2020
More women than men will fall into extreme poverty due to the pandemic as they bear the economic brunt of COVID-19 and face bigger job losses. Read more »
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Africa: It Was Meant to Be a Ground-Breaking Year for Gender Equality but Covid-19 Widened Inequalities
IPS, 24 July 2020
Sixteen-year-old Suhana Khan had just completed her grade 10 exams in March, when India imposed a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. Since then, she has been spending her mornings and… Read more »
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Africa: UN Warns COVID-19 Could Wipe Out Gains in Equality for Women At Work
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 30 June 2020
An estimated 40% of women employed globally work in hard-hit sectors such as hospitality and retail Read more »
Hitting Women Hard, Pandemic Makes Gender Poverty Gap Wider - UN
The novel coronavirus pandemic will widen the poverty gap between women and men, pushing 47 million more women and girls into impoverished lives by next year, and undoing progress made in recent decades, according to the United Nations. More women than men will fall into extreme poverty due to the pandemic as they bear the economic brunt of COVID-19 and face bigger job losses. By 2021, for every 100 men aged 25 to 34 living in extreme poverty, there will be 118 women - a gap expected to increase to 121 women per 100 men by 2030.
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4 September 2020
From insights to action: Gender equality in the wake of COVID-19
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- United Nations
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- United Nations
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This publication summarizes data, research, and policy work by UN Women's Policy and Programme Division on the pandemic's impact on women and girls, ... see more »
InFocus
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At the culmination of World Breastfeeding Week, two women - both mothers - who are fierce advocates for saving the lives of women and children say that without better care and more ... Read more »
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Africa is facing a triple threat from conflict, gender-based violence and Covid-19. For women, the outbreak is deadly in multiple ways, and leading women are calling for ... Read more »
