From Breakingviews: Women are saving millions of lives while exposing themselves to greater risk of COVID-19 infection. Guest columnists phumzileunwomen and gabramosp explain the coronavirus’s impact on gender inequality
A nurse walks out of a hospital during the outbreak of coronavirus disease , in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Health, social and economic issues are interconnected. Women are potentially more exposed to material hardships associated with the economic fallout from Covid-19. A significant rise in unemployment and underemployment is forecasted globally. Many women – 740 million of whom work in the informal economy with jobs that offer little to no social protection – now face severe economic insecurity and few options.
Take the situation of small-to-medium enterprises. These businesses are suffering and need economic life support, but those SMEs headed by women have less financial leverage to deal with the crisis and rely more on self-financing. On top of this, confinement policies to contain the pandemic are also exacerbating gender-based violence. Even in normal times, an unacceptably high one in three women around the world have suffered domestic violence and 38% of all murders of women are committed by their partners. With confinement, we have seen an increase of more than 30% in calls to helplines in some countries as lockdowns for 4 billion people build pressure.
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