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A waitress wearing a protective mask and gloves amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, cleans glasses at Setouchi Lemon Shokudo in Tokyo, Japan, on June 22, 2020. [Reuters]
The coronavirus pandemic could wipe out "the modest progress" made on gender equality at work in recent decades with women globally at greater risk of losing their jobs, the International Labour Organization (ILO) warned on Tuesday.
The U.N. agency said the fall in global working hours was "significantly worse than previously estimated" in the first half of the year. The Americas was the hardest-hit region.
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