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The pandemic has rolled back years of progress towards equality between men and women, according to a report released on Wednesday showing the crisis had added decades to the trajectory towards closing the gender gap.
A range of studies have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on women, who have lost jobs at a higher rate than men, and had to take on much more of the extra childcare burden when schools closed.
The effects will be felt in the long-term, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF), which in its annual Global Gender Gap Report found that the goalposts for gender parity appeared to be moving further away
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