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Coronavirus pandemic exacerbates inequalities for women, UN warns | Coronavirus | The Guardia

• ‘Limited gains made in the past decades’ toward gender equality ‘are at risk of being rolled back’, UN policy brief said
  

"A global economy in freefall, 1.52 billion students stuck at home, dramatic swells in domestic violence reports and healthcare systems overwhelmed by a single disease all portend vicious side-effects for women during the Covid-19 pandemic, the United Nations warns.

“There is no single society where we’ve achieved equality between men and women, and so this pandemic is being layered on top of existing inequalities, and it’s exacerbating those inequalities,” Nahla Valji, the UN’s senior gender adviser to the executive office of the secretary general, told the Guardian.

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