The South African government responded to this threat by calling for a state of disaster and putting the country under a strict lockdown which came into effect on March 26.
Women all around the world spend between three and six hours on unpaid care work and men spend between 30 minutes and two hoursUnpaid care work is all the work, non-compensated, that is carried out in the household – including care of children and people, cooking, cleaning, and fetching water. Women play the caretaker role at home, take care of the children, their in-laws and husband. In the most extreme of cases this changes their labour force participation outcome. Unpaid care work impedes women’s participation in the labour market, and when they do participate they usually get a pay that is lower than that of their male counterparts – sometimes because they have to split their work hours between paid and unpaid care work.
In cases where a family member is infected, the role of taking care of them falls into the hands of a woman who is already responsible of taking care of everyone in the household. The economic outcomes for women – who are already crowded in the informal sector with jobs that offer less security – took a turn for the worst.
Women and men inherently have unequal positions in society and thus unequal economic outcomes, epidemics such as the Covid-19 serve as highlighters of these inequalities and different outcomes faced with these genders.
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