Fumzili Malambo Nkoka, Executive Director of UN Women, said that the Corona pandemic is not just a health problem, but rather a shock to our societies and economies, highlighting that the pandemic “reveals deficiencies in public and private arrangements that currently depend on women playing multiple unpaid roles”.
“We need more data, disaggregated by sex, to monitor the evolution of the situation, including different rates of infection, varying economic impacts, differentiated burden of care, incidents of domestic violence and sexual assault”, Nkoka stressed in a statement on Sunday, March 29, 2020.
Nkoka also stressed the need for governments to be aware of the enormous contribution women make and the economic condition of many of them.
“This includes a focus on sectors where women are more represented and less paid, such as day-to-day workers, small business owners, and women working in the cleaning, welfare, exchange, food-processing and informal economy sectors”, explained Nkoka.
The Executive Director of UN Women also stressed that women constitute 70% of frontline workers in the health and social sector, such as nurses and midwives, cleaners and workers in the fields of washing clothes, pointing out that the Covid-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to take radical and positive measures to correct the inherent inequality in many areas of a woman’s life.
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