Anne Hathaway - Gender and the Big Picture | SDG Action Zone | UNGA

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When it comes to gender equality, we are at a global crossroads with evidence that this is both the most promising and most terrifying moment in recent memory.

On the one hand, the Generation Equality Forum in Paris led to more than 1,000 commitments to action and $40 billion pledged to empower women and girls across sectors and across generations.

On the other, the Taliban and Afghanistan are showing us violent extremist misogyny writ large, underlining just how quickly progress towards gender equality can be reversed.

On the one hand, we are seeing examples of people rallying to get through the COVID-19 pandemic on international news and in our own homes.

On the other, as we locked down and locked ourselves in to protect our family's health, across the world, women lost their jobs and income to take on child care and homeschooling, and traditional, gendered household roles rapidly became preeminent.

Even before the pandemic hit, globally, women were doing three times as much unpaid care work as men.

Women became the shock absorbers for the crisis with 59 percent reporting spending even more time on unpaid domestic work since the pandemic began.

This has enduring consequences both for their ability to re-engage in their previous lives and their ability to earn a living.

This must change.

The world has now begun to recognize caregiving work as essential in the crisis.

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