Women hit hardest by the impact of COVID-19
As we begin to emerge out of the woods and into a post-Covid, ‘new normal’ landscape, the full extent of the pandemic’s impact on jobs is starting to become apparent. While its onset highlighted many pre-existing gender inequalities in society such as discrimination and the imbalanced burden of unpaid care work, COVID has caused further damage to the gender divide through a higher rate of female furloughs and redundancies, unparalleled work/life balance challenges, an increase in domestic violence cases, and mental health and wellbeing setbacks to name a few. Read more…