If there’s a spillover of sick people who can’t go to hospital, it is the women at home who are looking after those people. All of this shrinks the woman’s economic potential in society for the long term. I really cannot choose which rights we need to sacrifice, so it just starts with legislation that covers all women so that women have recourse. The services that women need to prevent violence, as well as to protect themselves from it, must be declared essential in every country. We actually need our responses to Covid-19 to address this issue for the long term.

Source: New York Times August 09, 2020 20:37 UTC