Background: This research explores the repercussions of the COVID-19 emergency on women’s enablement worldwide … various metrics pertinent to women’s empowerment, encompassing the ratio of employed females to the total populace, women …’s labor force involvement, female representation in legislative assemblies, young women disengaged from education, occupation …

women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this … sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly …

Recent contributions using police recorded calls-for-service and/or crime data to estimate impacts of COVID-19 …