Coronavirus should drive businesses to unleash the full value of women’s talent

While society has made improvements towards gender parity, the Covid-19 outbreak has shone a harsh spotlight on neglected equality gaps. In some areas, gender parity is even rolling backwards.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa taught a painful lesson: while an economy might recover, men’s incomes will return to normal faster than women’s. 

While this assessment might seem pessimistic, the reality is that there are already abundant signs of Covid-19 disproportionately affecting women.

As hundreds of millions of students across Asia have settled into study from home, we can already see it is the female partner who typically provides most of the informal care despite having their own “work from home” responsibilities.