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states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on "cnn newsroom." president biden is at home in delaware after a campaign swing to three western states. ahead, why he says this year's mid-term elections are the most important in decades. plus, chinese leader xi says they will take taiwan by force. a live report from beijing plus reaction from taipei. elon musk changes his mind when it comes to offering peace for ukraine. we'll look at the decision and huge implications in the war against russia. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with ken br...

How had Covid affected women and girls around the world? B: This has been a devastating year for women’s rights. Some people find that counterintuitive because more men have died than women, but the impact on women’s lives has been much worse than on men’s. Roughly 1.4 billion kids were sent home from school and many more from childcare, and someone had to look after them and that was overwhelmingly women. Even before Covid, women did 2.5 times as much domestic care work as men. And those kids being out of school fell on women and it pushed millions of women out of the work force.