UN Women Issues Feminist Framework to Guide Covid-19 Recovery Plans

UN Women has published its feminist framework to guide Covid recovery plans. As the Indian magazine Swaddle reports, the framework “identifies five priorities for governments to focus on in order to tackle the gender bias prompted by the pandemic: reduction of gender-based violence, including domestic violence; introduction of social protection and economic stimulus packages to serve women and girls; promoting practice of equal sharing of the burden of care and domestic work; increasing women’s participation in Covid19 response-planning and decision-making to ensure representation; and including gender perspectives in data and coordination mechanisms” For more on the framework, go to The SWADDLE