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From Insights to Actions: Gender Equality in the wake of COVID-19 report
September 8 , 2020
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- It is released by UN Women and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
- It states that the COVID-19 pandemic will have negative impacts on the women and will increase the poverty rate of women and widen the gap between men and women in poverty.
- The pre-pandemic female poverty rate in South Asia was projected to be 10 per cent in 2021 but is now expected to reach 13 per cent.
- The pandemic is expected to reverse the progress made to eradicate poverty by the end of this decade and push around 96 million people into extreme poverty by 2021 of which around 47 million will be women and girls.
- International Labour Organisation estimates that by June 2020, around 72% of the domestic workers had lost their jobs due to COVID-19.
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