Bee Rowlatt: Coronavirus pandemic has reversed women s progress
Mon, Feb 15 2021 10:56:54 AM
By Siddhi Jain
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANSlife): Noted writer, journalist and a key campaigner for the recognition of 20th century feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Bee Rowlatt, who will be speaking at the upcoming 14th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), believes that due to the coronavirus pandemic, women s progress has been unraveled and has, in fact, going in reverse. What happened to working women during the coronavirus - and this is playing out globally - is the expectation that women pick up the slack in the domestic sphere and take on the extra work. Particularly here in the UK, women are overwhelmingly being forced out of their jobs because they can t keep up with everything at home. I just wonder how this will be in the case in 2021. There are horrendous statistics on domestic violence. There are so many things going wrong, which makes you think we have only scratch