COVID-19: Sharp inequality between Women and Men

Headline Diplomat eJournal - Issue 1, Series 2
The perilous lenses of COVID-19: The sociopolitical impact
Writes Tayo Williams, Content Writer, Headline Diplomat eJournal, LUDCI.eu
Gender inequality is an issue that has been discussed for a while in many circles from informal gatherings to giant formal ones like the World Economic Forum. Even with all the work and successes achieved towards gender equality, the World Economic Forum predicted that economic equality between men and women would take 257 years.

COVID-19 has come to completely upset this prediction and potentially set it further away into some insanely distant future. The pandemic has made bare the fault lines already existent between women and men. While the virus affects all sectors of the world economy, it does so unequally. Women will suffer more in every regard from the consequences of this pandemic than men will. This is not to take anything away from the effect on men, but certain persistent social norms make women disproportionately affected by this virus. Let’s consider some of the effects of COVID-19 on men and women.

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