'We are losers in this crisis': research finds lockdowns reinforcing gender inequality
Source: The Guardian
Life during the coronavirus lockdown has reinforced gender inequality across Europe with research emphasising that the economic and social consequences of the crisis are far greater for women and threaten to push them back into traditional roles in the home which they will struggle to shake off once it is over.
Throughout the continent, campaign groups are warning that the burdens of the home office and home schooling together with additional household duties and extra cooking, has been unequally carried by women and that improvements made in their lives by the growth in equality over the past decades are in danger of being rolled back by the health crisis.
In Spain, more than 170,000 people have signed a petition calling for urgent measures to address the fact that women have been left to bear the brunt of the lockdown. “As a result of this crisis, many women will be forced to give up ‘paid work’ in order to care for their families,” the petition notes, urging the government to adopt measures such as legally enshrining working from home and facilitating greater flexibility.
Click here to read the full article published by The Guardian on 29 May 2020.
Life during the coronavirus lockdown has reinforced gender inequality across Europe with research emphasising that the economic and social consequences of the crisis are far greater for women and threaten to push them back into traditional roles in the home which they will struggle to shake off once it is over.
Throughout the continent, campaign groups are warning that the burdens of the home office and home schooling together with additional household duties and extra cooking, has been unequally carried by women and that improvements made in their lives by the growth in equality over the past decades are in danger of being rolled back by the health crisis.
In Spain, more than 170,000 people have signed a petition calling for urgent measures to address the fact that women have been left to bear the brunt of the lockdown. “As a result of this crisis, many women will be forced to give up ‘paid work’ in order to care for their families,” the petition notes, urging the government to adopt measures such as legally enshrining working from home and facilitating greater flexibility.
Click here to read the full article published by The Guardian on 29 May 2020.
