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Women work the COVID frontline but lack a voice, poll shows

Women work the COVID frontline but lack a voice, poll shows

ANASTASIA MOLONEY SEVEN in 10 workers on the frontline of the pandemic are female yet women are left out of many COVID-19 response and recovery plans, according to a global survey published on Thursday. The survey, by New York-based women's rights advocacy group Women Deliver and Paris-based research organization Focus 2030, gathered the views of 17,000 men and women in 17 countries. Most wanted women to have a greater say and worried the pandemic had set back progress on equal rights. "People around the world recognize that gender equality is an issue of our time. And that it is an…
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