“Covid-19 hasn’t helped; in fact, it has highlighted how quickly things can change. Some predictions suggest the gains seen over the last 25 years with women in the workplace could be wiped out in a year. When compared to men, four times as many women dropped out of the U.S. labour force in September (roughly 865,000 women, compared to 216,000 men), according to a report by the Century Foundation and Center for American Progress.”
-H.R.H. Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud, writes in Harper’s Bazaar Arabia about the impact of Covid-19 on women in the labor force and the urgent need to make gender equality a global priority. [Harper’s Bazaar Arabia]
