How Did The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact Women and Girls Globally?
COVID-19 worsened gender disparities in health, education, and economic sectors, disproportionately impacting women and girls worldwide.
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COVID-19 worsened gender disparities in health, education, and economic sectors, disproportionately impacting women and girls worldwide.

Violence against women is worryingly normalized, to the extent that women are being conditioned to protect themselves using anything at their disposal from a very young age.

Women's participation in diplomacy underscores the urgent need for greater female participation in diplomacy, emphasizing their unique abilities to foster consensus and enact positive social change in a field still grappling with entrenched gender stereotypes and underrepresentation.

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