The incompetence of gender policy and the pandemic

RACHEL MARIN

The economic impact of the COVID pandemic on women has been very similar across the world.

The reason is that women everywhere are clustered in the same “female” economic sectors, suffer similarly from the unequal distribution of family care, and are disadvantaged in access to savings, credit and capital.

Due to these common limitations, women have borne the brunt of the crisis and their future prospects have become so blurred that it could have historical consequences ...

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