Hitting Women Hard, Pandemic Makes Gender Poverty Gap Wider - U.N.

Sep 2, 2020 | Anastasia Moloney, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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More women than men will fall into extreme poverty due to the pandemic as they bear the economic brunt of COVID-19 and face bigger job losses. The coronavirus pandemic will widen the poverty gap between women and men, pushing 47 million more women and girls into impoverished lives by next year, and undoing progress made in recent decades, the United Nations said on Wednesday.