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The Impact of COVID-19 on Women - United Nations
Policy Brief:The Impact of COVID-19 on Women 9 APRIL 2020 POLICY BRIEF: THE Impact OF COVID-19 ON Women 3 2 POLICY BRIEF: THE Impact OF COVID-19 ON WOMENThe year 2020, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, was intended to be ground-break-ing for gender equality. Instead, with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic even the limited gains made in the past decades are at risk of being rolled back. The pandemic is deepening pre-existing inequalities, exposing vulnerabilities in social, political and economic systems which are in turn amplifying the impacts of the pandemic. Across every sphere, from health to the economy, security to social protection, the impacts of COVID-19 are exacerbated for Women and girls simply by virtue of their sex: >Compounded economic impacts are felt especially by Women and girls who are gen-erally earning less, saving less, and holding insecure jobs or living close to poverty.
4 POLICY BRIEF: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON WOMEN POLICY BRIEF: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON WOMEN 5 I. Economic Impacts living in poverty. For those who, as a result of recent economic growth managed ...
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