In the News
January 19, 2022
This article, published on The National Interest, discusses the inequality situation caused by the pandemic, citing RepresentWomen's Research Director Courtney Lamendola's 2022 roundup article on gender parity. Read an except below:
There was also extreme inequality witnessed in the ongoing fight against the pandemic, contributing to the death of at least more than 20,000 people each day, or one person every four seconds.
“Vaccines were meant to end this pandemic, yet rich governments allowed pharma billionaires and monopolies to cut off the supply to billions of people. The result is that every kind of inequality imaginable risks rising. The predictability of it is sickening. The consequences of it kill,” Bucher said.
“The world’s response to the pandemic has unleashed this economic violence particularly acutely across racialized, marginalized, and gendered lines. As COVID-19 spikes this turns to surges of gender-based violence, even as yet more unpaid care is heaped upon women and girls,” she continued.
In all, women collectively lost $800 billion in earnings in 2020, helping the pandemic set gender parity back from 99 years to 135 years today. Now, 252 men have more wealth than all one billion women and girls in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean combined.
Read the full article here.
