Abstract

Women are playing a huge role in the fight against COVID-19, acting as home caregivers, community mobilizers, and frontline healthcare workers (ASHA). Women must be at the forefront of emergency response operations, social and economic recovery efforts, and attempts to improve our health systems after the pandemic if we are to truly bring health, wellbeing, and dignity for all. Additionally, it is important to maintain the strides gained in the area of sexual and reproductive health and rights as we work toward gender equality. In addition, women are currently dealing with a number of health, wealth, personal, and social issues as a result of this pandemic. The effects of any disaster, whether man-made or natural, including COVID-19, differ for men and women in middle-class houses where "working from home" is an option. Women are expected to take on endless household duties because domestic employees have been laid off and everyone is always at home. Physical separation, however, means little to the unemployed working matriculation woman, who must sell produce, fill water bottles at congested public faucets, or use public restrooms in order to survive.

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