When you are on the side of global enlightenment, the standards of proof required for your assertions tend to be somewhat lower. This perhaps explains why Meghan Markle’s comments during an event called the Global Citizen’s Vax Live concert were so widely reported yet so little challenged by the usual army of self-appointed ‘fact-checkers’ who swoop on anything to do with Covid.
She claimed that women ‘have been disproportionately affected by this pandemic’, citing a ‘surge in gender-based violence, the increased responsibility of unpaid care work and new obstacles which have reversed so much progress for women in the workplace’.
She went on to say that ‘women, especially women of colour, have seen a generation of economic gain wiped out’ and claimed that since the beginning of the pandemic ‘nearly 5.5 million women have lost work in the US’. She also asserted that ’47 million women around the world are expect to slip into extreme poverty.’
Where hard evidence exists, it does not indicate a huge difference in job losses between men and women
To start with gender-based violence, this claim has been widely made, and may well be true.
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