COMMENT | Wanted: A gender-sensitive Covid-19 recovery

COMMENT | The numbers don't lie. From Unicef to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to thousands of media reporting all over the world - all data paint the same bleak picture on how the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting the lives of women, exposing and amplifying existing inequalities faced by them, and reversing decades of progress made in women's rights internationally, regionally and locally.

Perhaps what is most worrying is how things are now so systemically damaged, it is projected to continue to deteriorate the realities faced by women even as the world gets back on its feet after this health crisis. So much for a light at the end of the tunnel.

As the government grapples for ideas on how we will be able to recover from the health, economic and politic catastrophe that we are in, the answer is actually staring us in the face: Prioritise women...