Lagarde: The pandemic is an opportunity to change gender roles for the better

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde sees his pandemic as a great opportunity for society to organize gender roles more equitably and sustainably coronavirus.

“The pandemic has not only highlighted essential weaknesses in our society, it has also forced us to approach things differently. And that’s where I see her opportunity for a change of gender roles for the better “, writes the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) in an article for the German Writers’ Network Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) and which is also published in European newspapers on the occasion of today’s International Women’s Day, as broadcast by AMPE.

“The pandemic not only made it clear how unequally distributed unpaid work is between women and men (within the family), but also showed that gender coexistence can be different. “In some families, fathers took care of most of the children because they had to work from home or because they were part-time, while the mothers did regular systematic work outside the home.”

THE Christine Lagarde called on Europeans “to challenge old habits at home or at work and to create new structures that will further facilitate gender equality” and called for “an increase in the proportion of women in senior executive offices of companies. In addition, women should be employed in more and more professions in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics “, she stressed in her article.

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