Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world<\/a>“, celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Women stand at the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis, as health care workers, caregivers, innovators, community organizers and as some of the most exemplary and effective national leaders in combating the pandemic. The crisis has highlighted both the centrality of their contributions and the disproportionate burdens that women carry.<\/p>\n
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Women leaders and women\u2019s organizations have demonstrated their skills, knowledge and networks to effectively lead in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts. Today there is more acceptance than ever before that women bring different experiences, perspectives and skills to the table, and make irreplaceable contributions to decisions, policies and laws that work better for all.<\/p>\n
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Majority of the countriesthat have been more successful in stemming the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic and responding to its health and broader socio-economic impacts, are headed by women. For instance, Heads of Government in Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, New Zealand and Slovakia have been widely recognized for the rapidity, decisiveness and effectiveness of their national response to COVID-19, as well as the compassionate communication of fact-based public health information. Yet, women are Heads of State and Government in only 22 countries worldwide.<\/p>\n
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In addition to persistent pre-existing social and systemic barriers to women\u2019s participation and leadership, new barriers have emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the world women are facing increased domestic violence, unpaid care duties, unemployment and poverty. Despite women making up a majority of front-line workers, there is disproportionate and inadequate representation of women in national and global COVID-19 policy spaces.<\/p>\n
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To uphold women\u2019s rights and fully leverage the potential of women\u2019s leadership in pandemic preparedness and response, the perspectives of women and girls in all of their diversity must be integrated in the formulation and implementation of policies and programmes in all spheres and at all stages of pandemic response and recovery.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWomen have an equal right to speak with authority on the decisions that affect their lives”<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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In celebrating women who are leading their nations and communities through the pandemic,\u202fSecretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres<\/strong> said that \u201ccountries with women leaders are among those that have suffered fewer deaths and put themselves on track for recovery\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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He also noted that women’s organizations \u201chave filled crucial gaps\u201d in providing services and information and while women peacebuilders have played \u201ca vital role\u201d in public health messaging.<\/p>\n
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\u201c70 per cent of frontline health and care workers are women \u2013 many from racially and ethnically marginalized groups and at the bottom of the economic ladder\u201d, the UN chief said.<\/p>\n
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Yet despite their critical roles during the pandemic, there has been a roll-back in hard-won advances in women’s rights, which he maintained harms everyone\u2019s work towards peace and prosperity.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIn this Decade of Action\u201d to deliver the SDGs, \u201cwe must turn things around\u201d, said Mr. Guterres, adding, \u201ctoo often, services are delivered by women, but decisions are made by men\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Just 22 countries have a woman as Head of State,\u202fonly 21 per cent of Ministers are women, and women parliamentarians make up less than 25 per cent of national legislators.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWomen have an equal right to speak with authority on the decisions that affect their lives\u2026from the pandemic to climate change, to deepening inequalities, conflict and democratic backsliding\u201d, said the UN chief.<\/p>\n
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While gender equality is essentially a question of power, Mr. Guterres pointed out that in our male-dominated world, \u201cequal power will not happen by itself\u201d.<\/p>\n
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He spelled out the need to \u201ctransform social norms…put in place laws and policies to support women in leadership\u2026appoint women to high-level positions\u2026tackle violence against women, both online and offline\u2026 increase access to financing for women candidates, women’s organizations and feminist movement [and] support women leaders in all their diversity and abilities\u201d.<\/p>\n
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While Covid-19 has been \u201ca calamity\u201d for everyone, he said that it has also \u201cforced a reckoning with global inequalities, fragilities and entrenched gender discrimination\u201d.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWomen must be at the center of the recovery as we make the course corrections that the pandemic has highlighted so vividly\u201d, concluded the Secretary-General.\u202f\u201cThis is a job for all of us\u201d.<\/p>\n
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UN Secretary-General’s message for International Women’s Day 2021<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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