Complications of COVID-19: Exacerbation of existing gendered inequality

Not all women experience discrimination to the same extent or in the same ways. The pandemic has resulted in a dramatic increase in women's caregiving responsibilities to both children and the elderly. Additionally everyone is in the home so the domestic load has increased. Prior to the pandemic women in Australia were spending on average 1.7 hours more per day on care and domestic duties than men and now in the pandemic this has increased by a staggering 50% to mean women are providing 2.5 more hours of care than men! We need to disrupt.... so that both men and women can both work in high value roles from caring through to strong technical roles as well. We need to redistribute paid work and domestic work more evenly between men and women. For more head over to codachange.org/podcasts