THABI LEOKA: Covid-19 pandemic slows fight for women’s rights
Lockdown has hit many who work in labour-intensive, low-income sectors hardest
23 August 2020 - 18:52
The Covid-19 pandemic has set women back even further as many who work in labour-intensive, low-income sectors have been hit the hardest by lockdown and economic stoppages.
A recent article by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg drew attention to the “double-double shift” Covid-19 is imposing on women. Sandberg said women play a dual role, as income-earners in the professional economic space in addition to being unpaid care providers in their private space...
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