For women across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has created the ‘perfect storm’ of economic, social and health impacts. Before this crisis the majority of recessions were either classed as 'man-cessions' or impacted men and women equally. This time around, however, there has been a disproportionate effect on women. 

In this insightful conversation with People Matters, Mohammad Naciri, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific at UN Women, discusses how the events of the last year and a half affected existing gender inequalities and what might be some of the challenges for women to achieve equity with men going forward.

The BeNext program on Gender Balance: Promoting Women addresses these issues and more. Running July 12th — 13th August 2021, this program is designed for women leaders committed to accelerating their career growth within their organization and learning critical skills for heading up teams. 

Pilar mentions the book 'Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men' by Caroline Criado-Perez.