Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy Roundtable Tuesday, 21 February 2023 8.00AM EST | 1.00PM GMT
The COVID-19 pandemic was a shock to societies and economies, highlighting dependence on women at home and at work while revealing systemic gender disparities in every sector (McKinsey, 2020 & UN Women, 2021). This situation was heightened in the context of women in the Global South, given the more pronounced segregation of gender roles and entrenchment of patriarchal structures in the region.