In Virtual Exchange, Women Organizers Share Challenges and Successes From COVID Frontlines
Coronavirus Coverage 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 familie...
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