Angelina Teny resumes her official duties today having recovered from COVID-19, an official statement said.
Angelina and her husband, Vice President Riek Machar went into self-isolation in Juba three weeks ago after both tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
By now, a significant chunk of Argentina’s population has been confined to their homes for two and a half months. But it would be a mistake to say the economy has shut down, according to Mercedes D’Alessandro.
“The economy is more alive than ever if you think about the care economy,” she told AQ, referring to sectors like nursing and education, as well as work is done at home, such as cleaning and caring for children.
Coronavirus is threatening to undo recent gains made toward gender equality as millions of women and girls are predicted to have unwanted pregnancies and fall into poverty, world leaders said.
A “wake-up call” is needed to protect women’s and children’s rights amid the pandemic, said the president of Estonia and former prime minister of New Zealand who held a virtual summit with leaders from Canada, Costa Rica and Senegal and United Nations officials.
Nepal’s top e-wallet app, Khalti, has cemented its place in the country’s digital payment market within two years by getting women on its side, empowering them to reduce the digital gender gap and improve their entrepreneurial skills.
While Uganda celebrates its success in containing the spread of COVID19 with sixty-nine recovered cases and zero number of deaths, the country’s leading telecommunication company, MTN Uganda recently donated sanitary towels to women in the mandatory COVID19 isolation centres.
In the rural Zimbabwe district of Wedza, a new electric-powered motorcycle is helping bring income to poor women and easing the burden of looking after families.
The three-wheeler, known as Hamba (Go), powered by a solar-charged lithium-ion battery, is being piloted by start-up Mobility for Africa, which leases the motorcycle to women in groups of up to five.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report also found women have taken on “more housework and childcare than fathers” during the lockdown, even if they have the same working arrangements.
Mothers are also spending more of their working hours simultaneously trying to care for children compared to men according to the analysis.
