The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified women’s multiple vulnerabilities. The economy has reportedly lost about 3 million jobs since the start of the lockdown. Two-thirds of these jobs belonged to women. Women make up the majority of those employed in the informal sector, the sector hardest hit by the pandemic. Informal workers have no job security, do not enjoy the protection of labour legislation, and cannot access credit. For women, this entrenches economic dependency on men – one of the factors that keeps them trapped in abusive relationships. NS, South Africa, Self-Care Course, 2/12/2020
Across the continent, feminist organisations, small informal collectives, and individual feminists drive the response to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in the absence of adequate state responses providing the support and resources that victims/survivors require.
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