LONDON: The global effort to recover from Pandemic Covid-19 is under threat because women are excluded from the role of important decision making, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Only 6% of Coronavirus Task Forces, who are responsible for coordinating the government’s response to the deadly virus, have the same number of men and women, while 11% do not have women at all, find the UN Development Program (UNDP).
“Important decisions made today will affect the welfare of people and planets for future generations,” said Achim Steiner, UNDP administrator, said in a statement.
“Sustainable recovery is only possible when women can play a full role in forming a post-covid-19 world that works for all of us.” New data by UNDP and Gender Inequality Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh found that women have less than one in three highest leadership positions in public administration globally, endangering green and inclusive recovery.
While 58% of employees in the Ministry of Health are women, they only have 34% of the position of health policy decision making, their research in 170 countries found.
This analysis came because many countries wrestle with economic and social fallers from Covid-19, which UNDP said could push 105 million women into poverty in 2030.
UNDP highlights “increasing violence against women and women” and “loss of work and large income , which threatens to reply to progress in gender equality “.
It is said that the government is more responsive and accountable and the quality of public services, especially around health, child care, and violence against women, significantly increased when women take leadership roles in public administration.
“While the findings were disappointing, they were not surprising,” Henriette Kolb, head of the gender group and economic inclusion in the international financial corporation of the World Bank Group, told the Thomson Reuters foundation.
“Women in the public and private sectors are very poorly represented in leadership positions.
However, if we want to create a formidable, fair, inclusive, and growing economy, we need everyone to sit at the leadership table.”