Women in the North: Choosing to challenge inequalities
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Women have borne the brunt of the pandemic’s impacts in the past year. Around 45 per cent of working women across the North work in sectors that have seen the biggest negative impacts during the pandemic.
This paper is a call to leaders across the North to commit to a better understanding of the impact of the pandemic on women and to take action to help build back fairer.
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