African women and Covid
Is the virus hitting the economic opportunities of women in Africa the hardest?
Coronavirus has impacted economies in every corner of the globe but there鈥檚 a fear it鈥檚 hitting women鈥檚 economic opportunities hardest. Tamasin Ford explores how women in Africa are affected. Lisa Kolovich is an economist at the IMF which is warning the pandemic threatens to roll back gains in women鈥檚 economic opportunities despite decades of progress. South African feminist and activist Shamillah Wilson says women鈥檚 voices are not being heard at policy level. And Tennen B Dalieh, a government worker and a feminist in Liberia says women and girls are bearing the brunt of the country's second pandemic in a decade.
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