Women in a pandemic, a cursed year, this Sunday, in 'El País Semanal'

Losing your job.

Having to leave it to work (even more) at home or juggle to combine it with childcare.

Lock in with the abuser.

Get impoverished.

Go back in rights.

The covid imposes suffering and challenges on the female population that add to the general impact of the virus.

These are the faces of those who suffer and fight the other pandemics.

Tatiane is poorer.

Like her, Joan lost her job and, like her friends, lives condemned to be a housewife.

Garazi had to move in with her mother in order to work and care for her daughter.

Andrea passed the confinement to beatings, locked in the same house as her abuser.

Klementyna took to the streets to fight for the lost right - abortion - that the Polish government cut in the midst of the COVID.

Tlaleng had to step in to keep family planning centers in her country, South Africa, open.

Six women in whose lives thousands could be reflected.

The progress of half the world's population has suffered a severe setback with the pandemic.

They assume more of the burden of precarious work and take care of unpaid care, they are more exposed to poverty and violence, they have less representation and voice in the spheres of power, and they have seen that there are conquered rights that are fading, such as the achieved in the field of sexual and reproductive health.

The Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, warned of the ravages as early as October 2020: “Unless we act now, covid-19 could erase a generation of fragile progress towards gender equality ”.

On the occasion of International Women's Day, this March 8, we have brought together six protagonists who fight from different parts of the world the effects that this first year of the health crisis is having in a particular way in the lives of women.