How Covid-19 puts women at more risk than men in Gauteng
By Opinion
Alexandra Parker, Gillian Maree, Graeme Gotz and Samkelisiwe Khanyile
Johannesburg - The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed stark inequalities and fissures in societies around the world. One of these ruptures has been the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women. In South Africa, women have suffered severe economic and social impacts from the lockdown that was imposed to curb the spread of the virus.
The National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM) investigates the socioeconomic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown conditions. Results from the first wave of the NIDS-CRAM survey show that net job losses between February and April were higher for women than for men. Women accounted for two-thirds of the total net job losses. Women are more likely than men to live in households that reported running out of money for food in April 2020. In addition, more women than men are
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Graeme is Director of Research Strategy at the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO), a partnership between the Gauteng Provincial Government, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Johannesburg, and organised local government in Gauteng. Between 2005 and 2009, Graeme worked at the City of Johannesburg as a Specialist: Strategy & Policy in the Central Strategy Unit, Office of the Executive Mayor. There he developed a number of strategies including the 2006 Growth and Development Strategy and the 2007 Inner City Regeneration Charter. Before joining the City he was a consultant for four years, specialising in local government and urban development. During this period he was the principal author of the 2004 State of South African Cities Report. Between 1997 and 2001 he was a member of staff at the Graduate School of Public & Development Management (P&DM), University of the Witwatersrand, serving as Manager of the Local Government Programme, lecturer on the Masters of Management