| | | Title | New Estimates of the Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Jobs and Enterprises | | Author | Charles Kenny and George Yang | | Subject | women-owned businesses, COVID-19 | | Date of Publication | 2021 | | Publisher | Center for Global Development | | Number of Pages | 3 | | Language | English | | Abstract | The ILO estimates that the number of women employed in low- and middle-income countries fell 4.7 percent between 2019 and 2020, compared to a 3.3 percent decline for men. Here, we examine one potential element of the story: the fact that women-owned businesses, which tend to hire more women employees than men-owned businesses, saw higher closure rates in the developing countries for which we have data. | | Filesize | 210393 MB | | File Format | PDF | | [ View / download original document ] |
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