Covid-19 pandemic hurt more working women

Women pass through raw sewage making its way to the road along Jam Street in Eastleigh, a bustling suburb on the outskirts of Nairobi on August 09, 2021. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

The economic crisis stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic has hit women hard. According to data collected by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, women were nearly two times more likely to lose their job than men in the first year of the pandemic. 

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) showed that 50 per cent of working women were rendered jobless by the pandemic.