Pandemic Hits Women Harder, Says WSI

Apr 15, 2020
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Is a gender viewpoint needed to examine the COVID-19 risks and impacts on fisheries and aquaculture? According to Natalia Briceño-Lagos and Marie Christine Monfort of the International Organisation for Women in the Seafood Industry (WSI), at this point of the pandemic, though we can’t fully depict what the consequences will be on both genders, we can be sure that the coronavirus outbreak will hit women harder than men, threaten progress made in empowering women and will deepen gender inequities already pervasive in this economic sector.