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1. Morally Indefensible PPE

Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez

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Women's PPE Problems in the Pandemic

The lack of protective equipment or PPE is putting lives of risk. The masks that did fit women tended to be the smaller ones, despite the fact that healthcare is a hugely female dominated industry. 95% of women working in the emergency services who responded to one survey said P PE had actively hampered their work. One study from May 2020 found that the mortality rate for female NHS employees aged 16 to 44 was estimated to be approximately twice that for those not employed in the NHS.

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