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