Alison Holder in US News, examines how the COVID-19 virus is specifically effecting women.
Women form 67% of the health workforce globally (more than 90% of health care workers in China's Hubei province alone are women) and are putting their health at risk on the front lines of dealing with the virus. Women across the world already shoulder the burden of unpaid and low-paid care work, but caring responsibilities due to COVID-19 are falling even harder on women who are more likely to earn less, work part-time or be in more insecure work.
With women's rights at the center of our response to COVID-19 we can catalyze – not compromise – progress toward gender equality and a fairer world for all.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-04-06/commentary-coronavirus-pandemic-may-set-women-back-decades-on-equality
