{"id":377791,"date":"2021-04-02T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=377791"},"modified":"2021-04-02T14:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T18:00:56","slug":"world-economic-forum-releases-damning-report-on-covid-19s-disproportional-impact-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/world-economic-forum-releases-damning-report-on-covid-19s-disproportional-impact-on-women\/","title":{"rendered":"World Economic Forum Releases Damning Report On COVID-19\u2019s Disproportional Impact On Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fworld-economic-forum-releases-damning-report-on-covid-19s-disproportional-impact-on-women%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=377791&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-362.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>According to the World Economic Forum, the economic and societal impact of government policies imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic could disproportionately impact women, setting equality efforts back by as much as a generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The World Economic Forum\u2019s \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.weforum.org\/docs\/WEF_GGGR_2021.pdf\"><span>Global Gender Gap Report<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d was released last month, and began:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em><span>\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has raised new barriers to building inclusive and prosperous economies and societies. Pre-existing gender gaps have amplified the crisis asymmetrically between men and women, even as women have been at the frontlines of managing the crisis as essential workers. The hardest hit sectors by lockdowns and rapid digitalization are those where women are more frequently employed. Combined with the additional pressures of providing care in the home, the crisis has halted progress toward gender parity in several economies and industries.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cWe hope that this report will serve as a call to action to leaders to embed gender parity as a central goal of our policies and practices to manage the post-pandemic recovery, to the benefit of our economies and our societies,\u201d wrote Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director and Head of the Centre for the New Economy and Society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the \u201cKey Findings\u201d section, there are several results regarding \u201cGender Gaps, COVID-19 and the Future of Work\u201d which should concern those on either side of the \u201cgender wage gap\u201d debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEarly projections from ILO suggest 5% of all employed women lost their jobs, compared with 3.9% of employed men,\u201d the World Economic Forum reported.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLinkedIn data further shows a marked decline of women\u2019s hiring into leadership roles, creating a reversal of 1 to 2 years of progress across multiple industries. While industries such as Software and IT Services, Financial Services, Health and Healthcare, and Manufacturing are countering this trend, there is a more severe destruction of overall roles in industries with higher participation of women, such as the Consumer sector, Non-profits, and Media and Communication,\u201d the report continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The World Economic Forum report also discusses the acceleration of \u201cautomation and digitalization,\u201d which is \u201cspeeding up labour market disruption.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In \u201cChapter 2: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Economic Gender Gaps,\u201d a \u201cLabour Market Scarring\u201d section states that \u201cThe circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic have dramatically altered how men and women live and work as public-health measures have forced limitations to in-person work.\u201d The report also claims that \u201cAlthough in absolute terms 64 million women and 80 million men have lost their jobs, the relative impact is higher on working women simply because there are less women in the labour market overall.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the United states, the report noted that \u201cemployment figures were down by 4.4 percentage points for women and 3.9 percentage points for men,\u201d and that \u201cData from the Bureau of Labour Statistics in the United States reveals that, in 2020, white men\u2019s unemployment rate in the United States increased by 3.6 percentage points, but rose 4 percentage points for white women, 4.9 for black or African American women and 6.2 for Hispanic or Latina women.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Among the multiple other findings were survey responses to issues like \u201cwork challenges,\u201d with women with children in the household the most likely to experience \u201cincreased anxiety around job security,\u201d \u201cstress due to changes in work routines and organization,\u201d or \u201cstress due to family pressures (e.g. childcare).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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