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WOMEN are doing more chores and parenting duties while working from home compared with men with similar responsibilities, studies on the effect of the lockdown on parents revealed yesterday.
Researchers from the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) and University College London’s institute of education asked 3,500 families about school closures, job losses, increased working from home and furloughing.
Between April 29 and May 15, they asked how individual parents of each family divide paid and unpaid responsibilities.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
Women’s fight against violence and legal erosion is central to building a democratic and just Iraq, says Dr SALMA SAADAWI
Comments from Matt Goodwin and Danny Kruger expose a reactionary vision in which falling birth rates are blamed on women, says JUDITH CAZORLA
As the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women begins in Beijing, it’s clear that China has fulfilled its commitments set 30 years ago and delivered amazing progress in women's education and equality, writes YU BOKUN