Sorry (not sorry) to always be banging the gender drum, but this decision to extend lockdown is going to hurt working women in this province AGAIN. We haven't learned from lockdown pt 1.
Like, how many reports do we have to produce, how many panels do we have to convene, how many tweets do we have to blast out there to say that there is no recovery without taking particular impacts on women into account?
As my colleague @JasmineRezaee wrote in her analysis of what a just recovery would look like "Women bear the double burden of paid work and caregiving, which has only heightened in the context of COVID-19." True in a lockdown that involves virtual learning https://www.ywcatoronto.org/takeaction/additional/intersectional
An Intersectional Approach to COVID-19 She-Covery

https://www.ywcatoronto.org/takeaction/additional/intersectional
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