Mar 8, 2021 Covid-19 is eroding the hard-won progress made towards many aspects of parity over recent decades. As the Institute for Fiscal Studies noted that the nature of the economic shock associated with the pandemic has touched many old and deep inequalities, gender inequality is no exception. A number of studies have indicated the devastating macro-level impact of Covid-19 on women, affirming that women are more likely to work in harder hit and higher risk sectors – such as healthcare, social and domestic work. This year alone, about 47-million women are expected to be living on less than $1.90 a day as a result of the pandemic.