During the lockdown, 38% of women in rural areas lost the possibility of going out to work, compared to 20% of men.
During the lockdown, 38% of women in rural areas lost the possibility of going out to work, compared to 20% of men. In Central America (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico), half of the women living in rural areas lost their source of employment. Read this and other findings by Diana Gutiérrez, Guillermina Martin and Hugo Ñopo in our new open access publication, The coronavirus and the challenges for women’s work in Latin America.
