Women-headed households are in a Covid-19 chokehold

The ripple effects of the virus have affected women more, with their having lost the most income and jobs, especially in the informal sector, where they are in the majority

Black women in rural areas and townships have been the hardest hit by the economic effects of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown, according to a socioeconomic impact assessment released by the South African office of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) during Women’s Month.

The assessment found that Covid-19 affected female-headed households the worst and that those households were more likely to fall into poverty than their male-headed counterparts.

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