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How COVID-19 is amplifying gender inequality in India -Kadambari Shah, Sahil Gandhi, and Gregory Randolph

-The Indian Express

Women are bearing a disproportionate amount of the burden that the imposition of lockdowns, shrinking of economic opportunity has created.

While much of COVID-19’s epidemiology remains shrouded in mystery, we know that it claims the lives of men more than women — at double the rate in some countries. Other coronavirus outbreaks, such as the 2003 SARS and 2012 MERS epidemics, were also more deadly for men than women.

But this epidemiological fact risks obscuring another gender dimension of the pandemic. While men’s immune systems may be less equipped to fight the virus, the socio-economic consequences of COVID-19 are stacking the deck against women. These effects are clearest in developing countries like India, where gender inequality is a persistent challenge.

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