“Once again it’s more often women who have to master the balancing act between homeschooling, childcare and their own jobs,” said the veteran leader. Women also outnumber men in care professions at a time when those jobs are “particularly challenging”. The gap narrows to six percent when comparing men and women in the same jobs. The study found that the pandemic “has exacerbated existing inequalities between women and men in almost all areas of life”. It could “take years, or even decades” to overcome the gender setbacks caused by the pandemic, it said.

Source: The Local March 06, 2021 11:03 UTC