The pandemic has exacerbated the risks for women and girls across the region. Yet women have taken up essential roles in the response as front-line health care workers as well as in their homes. Many of the hard-fought gains have been reversed, and existing inequalities deepened. Even before the pandemic, women and girls in Asia and the Pacific spent up to 11 hours a day on unpaid care and domestic work – four times more than men.

How can we better address these vulnerabilities? Read the report to learn more about the unpaid care economy and how it has impacted women and girls during the pandemic: