Gender Matters: COVID-19 and the labour market in the Global South

     
10:00 ES
Online

Gender Matters: COVID-19 and the labour market in the Global South

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COVID-19 has become an unprecedented global crisis. The pandemic and its associated economic crisis have exposed deep structural inequalities around the world, with disproportionate effects on women and girls. This webinar will discuss current issues around COVID-19 and the labour market for women in the Global South. A diverse panel of experts from the worlds of international development research and practice will discuss research priorities and possible policy solutions for women in the labour market.

This is the first event in a series of research-to-practice Webinar on the gender dimensions of COVID19 organized by the Women’s Empowerment in Development (WED) Lab at McGill in partnership with the Institute for the Study of International Development and made possible thanks to funding from the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW 2) program, a multi-funder initiative by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Canada’s International Development Research Centre.

 

Featuring:

  • Professor Ashwini Deshpande (Ashoka University)
  • Dr. Mary Njeri Kinyanjui (University of Nairobi)
  • Dr. Laura Alfers (WIEGO)
  • Dr. Lorena Alcazar (GRADE)