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This content was published on April 9, 2021 - 09:00
April 9, 2021 - 09:00
Bruno Kaufmann
Bruno is swissinfo.châs global democracy correspondent as well as being a long-term foreign correspondent for the Swiss Broadcasting Company, based in Sweden. He is also the Director of International Relations at the Swiss Democracy Foundation and Co-president of the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy.
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Sue Duke: Working women have been hit hard by the pandemic but now is the time for change Covid-19 has effectively wiped out progress towards gender equality in many industries but there is an opportunity to break down barriers and get more women into future-facing tech roles 9th April, 2021
‘The reality is that school and childcare closures saw women take more responsibility for childminding. That stepping up at home often came at the cost of stepping back at work.’ Picture: Getty
The latest insights published in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report make for difficult reading. The report makes it very clear that Covid-19 has taken a harder toll on women’s careers than men’s.
Overcoming COVID-19 will require tackling inequality
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Author: Winnie Byanyima, Undersecretary-General of the United Nations; Executive Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Given the need to fund treatment and vaccines, there is pressure to scale back funding for social provisions, but leaders must boldly finance a more equal world.
Gender inequality is not only wrong, it is dangerous and weakens us all by depressing economic potential and threatening progress against pandemics.
World leaders can finance an equal economic recovery from COVID-19 by issuing Special Drawing Rights, cancelling debt and increasing domestic revenues.
Report: Bahamas second for equal gender economic participation and opportunity
The Bahamas is ranked second in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021 for economic participation and opportunity between men and women.
The Global Gender Gap index benchmarks 156 countries, analyzing whether gender parities exist in an effort to call government and civic leaders to action to close such gaps over time.
There were four key categories of focus: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment.
Overall, The Bahamas ranked 58 out of 156 nations.
“The economies that, to date, have the smallest economic participation and opportunity gaps include Lao PDR (91.5 percent), The Bahamas (85.7 percent) Burundi (85.5 percent) Iceland (84.6 percent), Latvia (82.2 percent), Moldova (81.1 percent) and Sweden (81 percent),” the report notes.
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