Just a reminder of some COVID effects on women
Least we forget.
Quoting from just some of the most recent stuff I have seen since March 2020 (*):
Work and equal opportunities
- Women have now to wait 135.6 years - up from 99.5 in 2020 - to be on equal footing with men, the World Economic Forum warns.
Violence
- it’s increasingly clear that women and girls are suffering from a surge of violence and domestic abuse (more on this at Web Foundation)
- gender-based violence is increasing online too. One UK helpline has seen a doubling of their website traffic since lockdown began, with 50% of cases linked to domestic violence.
- in May 2020 (source) the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has experienced a 106% increase in global reports of suspected child sexual exploitation to its CyberTipline compared with March 2019. In India, there has been a 95% rise in traffic searching for child sexual abuse content, and Europol has also witnessed an escalation.
- The pandemic is a “Perfect Storm on domestic abuse survivors” (source of the images too).
Health
- studies in Italy about precocious puberty have found an increase of such cases among girls since the beginning of lockdown, with long-term psychological consequences still hard to evaluate
(*) I may update this post with more similar news, as time passes
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