Khien Ryan Magallanes

President Garcia Memorial Institute of Technology

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The COVID-19 pandemic is forming a severe shock worldwide, with different meanings for men

and women. Women are working on the frontlines against COVID-19, and the impact of the

crisis on women is stark. Women face compounding burdens: they are over-represented

working in health systems, continue to do the bulk of unrewarded care work in households, face

high risks of economic insecurity (both today and tomorrow), and face increased risks of

violence, abuse, or harassment during times of crisis and quarantine. The pandemic has had and

will continue to impact the health and well-being of many defenseless groups radically. Women

are among those most heavily affected.

Given that the COVID-19 crisis concerns men and women separately, measures to determine it

necessarily take gender into account. For women and girls, vulnerabilities in the home, on the

front lines of health care, the labor market must be addressed.

Despite where one looks, women bear most of the obligation for keeping communities united,

be it at home, in health care, at school, or caring for the elderly. In many countries, women

perform these tasks without pay. Yet even when experts carry out the work, those professions

conduce to be overlooked by women, and they tend to pay less than male-dominated jobs.

The COVID-19 crisis has forced these gender-based differences into even more apparent relief.

Provincial structures, multilateral establishments, and global financial companies must

understand that women will play a critical role in resolving the crisis and that measures to

address the pandemic and its financial result should include a gender aspect.

I recognize three areas where women and girls are individually in danger and need more durable

protections in the prevailing crisis.

First, occurrence reveals that domestic, sexual, and gender-based brutality spreads during

emergencies and disasters. It happened a few years back in epidemics, and it seems to be

appearing now. Following conditions of quarantine or stay-at-home measures, women and

children who live with violent and commanding men are exposed to a considerably more critical

risk. The essential to support these women and children will only increase when the crisis is

over, and people are free to move almost again. We must guarantee that women’s securities

and other kinds of support are managed and increased correspondingly.

Second, most of those on the pandemic front lines are women because women make up 70% of

all health and social-services workers globally. We instantly require to enable these women,

rising by contributing more support to those who also believe household work's primary

responsibility. Generally, that could involve caring for infected family members, which will

subject these women to even greater risk. Women also consider the majority of the world’s

more significant population – especially those over 80 and therefore a majority of potential

patients. However, they manage to have more limited access to health assistance than men do.

More serious, in some nations that encountered preceding pandemics, the provision of physical

and reproductive-health services, including fetal and parental care and access to contraceptives

and safe abortions – was reduced as soon as supplies demanded to be reallocated for the crisis.

Such defunding have grave results for women and girls and must be prevented at all costs.

Finally, women are unusually vulnerable economically. Globally, women’s investments are more

vulnerable than men’s, and their labor market position is less secure. Moreover, women are

more likely to be single parents who will be hit harder by the economic downturn in full swing.

Given these differences, economic crisis-response measures must consider for women’s unique
condition. Particularly in battle zones and other areas where gender justice receives short shrift,

women and girls risk being excluded from decision-making and possibly left behind entirely.

In this year's celebration of women's month, they highlight change worship for women and

recognize the importance of women's role in our fight against COVID-19. We are calling on all

governments to recommit to the principle that women have the same right to participate in

decision-making as men do – that their outlooks must be accounted for.

To that end, lawmakers at all levels need to adapt to and engage with women’s fairness groups

when forming acknowledgments to this crisis and when planning for the next one. In today's

generation, let us acknowledge women's work so we can achieve fairer outcomes.

We also must learn the proper teachings from the COVID-19 crisis, which obliges us to take a

hard look at how we value and pay for women’s participation in health care, social services, and

the economy. How can we ensure that women are not excluded from critical political processes

now and in the future?

Today, all countries face the same dilemma, and none will control COVID-19 by acting alone.

Given that we partake in the same future, we must work to ensure that it is built on solidarity

and cooperation. Governments must show leadership. We know that gender-equal cultures are

more flourishing and sustainable than those with vast inequalities. The world’s decision-makers

have an opportunity to make gender balance a top priority. I inspire them to rise to the

occasion.