When the coronavirus took hold of 193 countries around the world, causing serious consequences for public health and the economy, women around the world, including Morocco, are direct victims of this epidemic and, on several levels, says a UN Women report.
When the coronavirus took hold of 193 countries around the world, causing serious consequences for public health and the economy, women around the world, including Morocco, are direct victims of this epidemic and, on several levels, says a UN Women report.
If women and girls play an essential role in the response strategy to the coronavirus, they are also on the front lines of people suffering from inequalities, amplified by this particular situation.
UN Women, which draws on analyzes carried out around the world, announces that "once again", the results have "revealed the disproportionate impact of the health emergency and confinement on women and workers in health ".
Frontline workers in the health sector, women, whether they are health professionals, community volunteers, scientists, doctors, they find themselves performing a double, sometimes triple mission, because in addition professional burden, they find themselves ensuring the role of link within their community and caregivers for their family, which increases their risk of being contaminated.
In Morocco, women represent 57% of medical staff, 66% of paramedical staff and 64% of civil servants in the social sector. They are also known to devote an average of seven times more time to domestic work than men, compared to only three times more globally.
While a large part of women remain unemployed, outside the work circuit, also prone to domestic violence, they are even more weakened by the global recession that threatens countries in these times of coronavirus pandemic.
Photo: UN Women / Ennakhil Center
"In the Arab region alone, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) estimates that COVID-19 will lead to a drop in GDP of US $ 42 billion and the loss of 1.7 million jobs in 2020 ″, indicates the publication of the UN Women, alerting on the situation of women being outside the active population but assuming the domestic tasks, the care or the follow-up of the schooling of the children at home.
This is an even more worrying situation for unemployed women in Morocco since the country has the lowest participation rate of women in economic life in the world, with 22% in 2018, compared to the world average of 48%, including 10% female entrepreneurship.
In addition, the trend of non-active women in the country has been declining for the past 20 years. In 2000, the percentage of women participating in economic life in Morocco was 29%. "These consequences will be all the more dramatic as women have had less and less access to activity for the past few years, especially in Morocco," said the UN report.
"The economic precariousness of women is also aggravated by their over-representation among the unemployed population, especially for the most educated," adds the publication, indicating that the level of unemployment among women is 33% against 18% among men.
If women and girls play an essential role in the response strategy to the coronavirus, they are also on the front lines of people suffering from inequalities, amplified by this particular situation.
UN Women, which draws on analyzes carried out around the world, announces that "once again", the results have "revealed the disproportionate impact of the health emergency and confinement on women and workers in health ".
Frontline workers in the health sector, women, whether they are health professionals, community volunteers, scientists, doctors, they find themselves performing a double, sometimes triple mission, because in addition professional burden, they find themselves ensuring the role of link within their community and caregivers for their family, which increases their risk of being contaminated.
In Morocco, women represent 57% of medical staff, 66% of paramedical staff and 64% of civil servants in the social sector. They are also known to devote an average of seven times more time to domestic work than men, compared to only three times more globally.
While a large part of women remain unemployed, outside the work circuit, also prone to domestic violence, they are even more weakened by the global recession that threatens countries in these times of coronavirus pandemic.
Photo: UN Women / Ennakhil Center
"In the Arab region alone, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) estimates that COVID-19 will lead to a drop in GDP of US $ 42 billion and the loss of 1.7 million jobs in 2020 ″, indicates the publication of the UN Women, alerting on the situation of women being outside the active population but assuming the domestic tasks, the care or the follow-up of the schooling of the children at home.
This is an even more worrying situation for unemployed women in Morocco since the country has the lowest participation rate of women in economic life in the world, with 22% in 2018, compared to the world average of 48%, including 10% female entrepreneurship.
In addition, the trend of non-active women in the country has been declining for the past 20 years. In 2000, the percentage of women participating in economic life in Morocco was 29%. "These consequences will be all the more dramatic as women have had less and less access to activity for the past few years, especially in Morocco," said the UN report.
"The economic precariousness of women is also aggravated by their over-representation among the unemployed population, especially for the most educated," adds the publication, indicating that the level of unemployment among women is 33% against 18% among men.
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