Lorena Alcazar was a panelist at Gender Matters: COVID-19 and the labour market in the Global South Webinar
| Date | : | 28/05/2020 |
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| Hour | : | 10:00 am - 11:00 am |
| Location | : | Evento online |
| Area/s | : | Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship |
As with other pandemics in recent history, women are particularly vulnerable. COVID-19 has further aggravated structural inequalities that systematically disadvantage women, specifically in the economic system. Economically, women are disproportionately impacted by the financial effects of the pandemic as the majority work in low-paid or informal jobs with few social protections. Around the globe, 740 million women work in the informal sector, which has been worst hit by the economic fall out of the coronavirus. Given the current challenges, it is important to focus attention on the gender dimensions of COVID-19 on the labour market in the Global South.
In this context, the Women’s Empowerment in Development (WED) Lab held the webinar Gender Matters: COVID-19 and the labour market in the Global South. Panelists were: Lorena Alcázar, senior researcher at GRADE, Ashwini Deshpande (Ashoka University), Mary Njeri Kinyanjui (University of Nairobi), and Laura Alfers (WIEGO). WED is an inititiave of McGill University.
More information here.
