pandemic

‘Our kids – however young or old they are – are now living in a world we never had to face at the same age,’ Jennie Hill writes.

In the latest episode of the Women are the Business podcast, two experts answer the question, can we get to the other side of the pandemic without making gender inequity worse? And just maybe, could we make things better?

The pandemic has exposed men to what most women already know: that there is no such thing as a hard line between life and work, writes Elle Green.

Ardern says the pay cut is about showing leadership and is a reflection of what has already been happening in the private sector during the COVID-19 crisis.

Remember during this pandemic that for many, including children, the home is more dangerous and more terrifying than the most contagious and deadly virus.

The consequences of measures taken to address the health and economic crisis are likely to be felt more by women, on a number of fronts.

On March 11, Eleanor Jackson discovered she was pregnant, just as the World Health Organisation upgraded COVID-19 from epidemic to pandemic.

While our borders are closing, we can’t afford to close our minds to what is happening beyond them, writes Lyn Morgain, Oxfam CEO.

What many surgeons have been holding for weeks, watching the pandemic spread, is the sadness of knowing that our patients must wait so that a more pressing health crisis can be addressed.

It is only natural to feel bewildered, at sea and caught up in different currents dragging you in one direction, writes Kristine Ziwica.

As panic surrounding COVID-19 intensifies, elderly women like Anne Oldland says people need to take stock, help where they can, and most of all “calm down”.