Has Covid-19 halted women’s progress in the workplace?

The pandemic has not only halting women’s progress in the fight for gender parity and equality at work but even reversed it

The “disproportionate impact” of the pandemic on women could undo some of the gains in gender equality in the labour market in recent decades and indeed exacerbate disparities.

The Covid-19 pandemic has had an impact on everyone’s working life, but of increasing concern is new research that suggests it may have disproportionately affected women, not only halting women’s progress in the fight for gender parity and equality at work but even reversed it.

Siobhan O'Shea, Client Services Director at CPL and brand ambassador for the 'Future of Work Institute' said she believes the pandemic has had a “disproportionate impact” on women’s working lives for a number of reasons.