This is a good article about how the COVID-19 pandemic will wreak havoc on women’s rights globally. Helen Lewis writes about the dangers of treating the pandemic in a gender-neutral way, with no analysis of the difference ways it is affecting the sexes.
Historically, disease outbreaks disproportionately affect women. Women are more likely to be the primary caregivers to their families, more likely to stop working outside the home, may never return to work after the epidemic or regain their former income levels, more likely to experience fatalities from conditions other than the outbreak (e.g. in childbirth, malaria, typhoid, etc.).
She shared about how the ongoing pandemic provides a good opportunity to rectify the mistakes of the past and start to collect gender-disaggregated data so we can start to better understand the actual implications for women and men’s lives for now and the future.
Before I go, I will share another article with a Nigerian focus.
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