“Despite its global nature, the impacts of COVID-19 are not evenly distributed. The health, economic, social and political effects are hitting women harder across the globe, and across the African continent. It is time then to both understand and respond to this pandemic in a gendered way and to ensure that women lead the recovery efforts from the local to the national level.”
Read more from Gwen Young’s piece for the Milken Institute, “COVID-19, Gender, and a More Equitable Response for Sub-Saharan Africa.“
