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Margaret Sedziafa (left) and Ayo Ayoola-Amale, leaders from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Chapter in Ghana, distribute supplies in Tema, a suburb of Accra. Photo: Margaret Sedziafa
From the ‘shadow pandemic’ of gender-based violence to the burdens of balancing greater care responsibilities, the gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are increasingly clear and well-documented. In many ways, the story of the last year illuminates the ways in which individual women and women-led organizations have, through their daily work, sustained families, communities, and societies at-large through crises.
History cautions, though, that even while women are repeatedly lauded for their resilience during crises, the specific forms of knowledge and skills that they contribute are too often forgotten when periods of crisis eventually subside.