Udisha Srivastav - Towards A Gender-sensitive Post-pandemic World, The Global Urge

“It is time to recognize women’s part in how we assemble back competently from the Covid-19.”

The last  International Women’s Day theme was; Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world. While the pandemic is still on, we can easily memorize the courage and strength of women in steering the battle against the pandemic and its economic and other consequences.

When we look back at the toughest challenges posed due to the pandemic in the last year, it is especially significant to accept the selfless job of our front-line health workers, and in which 70 percent, globally, are women. We have also observed women going ahead, delivering necessary aids in education, health, and emergency responses in these difficult situations.

Let’s Talk Facts

The UN Secretary-General, recently gave some recent figures that reveal that there are incredibly fewer representations of women in the administration at the elevated levels of decision-making. There are presently only 10 women chiefs of state and 13 women heads of government. 

We have seen outstanding women in key decision-making positions in the areas of health, enterprise, and policy making driving a path for their nations, over this pandemic period.

Nirmala Sitaraman , the Indian Finance Minister has governed the formulation of a driving pro-growth budget, which will benefit India’s advancing come back, and help enhance its healthcare and infrastructure policies – both of which are crucial to women’s come back and financial empowerment.

India’s Achievements In Gender Parity

Leading Indian business women including Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Samina Hamied, and many others have supported strengthening India’s battle against COVID-19.

As a remarkable example, Australia attained gender equivalence in the Australian Senate in the year 2019 itself. And the recent results from the Australian Institute of Directors illustrate the proportion of women on ASX 200 councils has surged to 32 percent. These are favorable impacts!

Research published last year by Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency, in cooperation with the Bankwest Curtin Economic Centre, indicates a rise in profitability and accomplishment of companies and firms with extra women on their panels. There is an evident message: Gender parallelism will convey privileges for all of us.

In addition, a modern survey by the McKinsey Global Institute report agrees that our responses to COVID-19 must be gender-responsive. According to its summary, refusing to take a gender-responsive policy to our financial recovery could bring to an Rs. 1 lakh crore penalty in global GDP by 2030. Nonetheless, resuming to accept gender-responsive approval will ensure that we begin the course to improve global GDP by Rs 13 lakh crore by 2030. Great, huh?

For more women to be in the management positions, we must protest the conventional conceptions of what renders a good leader. 

Role Of Women Towards Gender-Sensitive Post-pandemic World

The persistent actions to help and entrust women will be especially significant as we proceed to fight the pandemic. As we struggle towards a financial rehab from the COVID-19 pandemic, we must ensure that the strategies we plan and implement, work towards bringing gender parity. Only then, can we be optimistic about ensuring a near-balanced and rational world.

Image courtesy: The Indian Express

Udisha Srivastav is a Freelance Content Writer with Femsay.com