EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19 / Women

Commission’s recovery plan “fails to address the specific challenges for women”, say economists Elisabeth Klatzer and Azzurra Rinaldi

Brussels, 15/07/2020 (Agence Europe)

The Covid-19 crisis has had asymmetrical consequences for men and women: in particular, more women lost their jobs. However, the Recovery Plan proposed by the European Commission should mainly benefit male-dominated sectors.

This is one of the conclusions reached by economists Elisabeth Klatzer and Azzurra Rinaldi in a report published on Tuesday 14 July and commissioned by the Greens/EFA group on the initiative of German MEP Alexandra Geese.

First of all, it is recalled that the pandemic...