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COVID-19 is causing a backslide in workplace gender equality. Here’s how to stop it

from Fortune

COVID-19 is causing a backslide in workplace gender equality. Here’s how to stop it Fortune Women are in the fight of their lives as we run the risk of unraveling decades of progress. Stopping the dramatic COVID-19 backslide in workplace equality requires immediate action. Women and minorities are disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic — in the job types and industries affected as well as in the increased demands they face as primary caretakers at home, exacerbated by the current and not-fully-understood childcare crisis. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has acknowledged the pandemic “is having devastating social and economic consequences for women and girls.” READ MORE

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