WOMEN ISSUES IN PANDEMIC TIMES: SOCIO ECONOMC EFECTS OF COVID – 19 ON GENDER PARITY

Abstract

The effects of pandemics are always gender biased therefore, the recovery efforts cannot be gender neutral. Although families are subjected to consummate tests, women are enduring the weight of the economic and social penalties of COVID-19.Gender inequality precipitates gender inequality, and the practice is simply aggravated in periods of crisis or principal blows like the COVID-19 pandemic. To appreciate the effects of the pandemic and to plan policy reactions to the present pandemic, it is significant to take note of prevailing gender disparities and their tendencies to mediate gender influences and roles. Also, to articulate policies that consider established circumstances to deliver a tailored methodology. Governments must pro-actively reach out to women for assistance with tackling the pandemic because of women´s larger engrossment with care of children and the elderly, plus their home-based activities and the actuality that the home is characteristically their purview. Women´s empowerment during this time is consequently more treasured because of their prospective inputs to the response endeavours. The need arises to communicate responses that will consider gender inequalities. The disparities in gender consequences of the pandemic are intensified in specific settings and among particularly susceptible groups. Women and girls who experience various levels of inequality tend to be particularly susceptible. The gender-segregated influence of the COVID-19 pandemic must likewise be contemplated for poverty measurement and forecasts. This paper examines the direct and indirect gender consequences of the COVID-19 and offers suggestions towards strategic recovery efforts so that women and girls are not left behind.