A virus spread. Why do we have it and when well. Just through the tax and weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like any information on the clone a virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. One slash science. Schools closed for months all because of the pandemic. Kids forced to stay at home and its usually the mothers who are left to deal with the added burden that i usually have one hour at my calendar or not much and you have to do. Grocery shopping cooking. Eating cleaning up and checking homework in one hour thats impossible. As the world struggles with coven 19 some women fear that its pushing them back into traditional roles. And this is the covert 1000 special ops even beards in the learn its good to have you with us the pandemic as a setback for women well speak with an expert in just a moment but 1st lets look at the story of one woman forced to put a pause on her career after the local schools closed. Watercolors instead of spreadsheets normally and a month would be sitting in the office right now but with schools and Nursery School closed due to the pandemic and her husband she has to stay at home something she never wanted. God its just this is a standstill and it is based on the fact that as a woman i said step back put my own needs on hold and yes that feels like im in a type of role right now that doesnt really fit me must have been enough to get past. Being a good housewife was never on this intention she just finished a masters in education when the crisis hit she postponed finding a job to cater for the family now pen cakes often on the menu one of the few things she knows how to cook but even that can get stressful because the line and you can decide anything on your own youre always together. For other people theres not a minute of rest and you can imagine what that does to you as a person and you constantly under pressure on this and the caring for someone else pam and then. Pam and im going. Right now weve banned them because weve talked to much and to us most explains that the Coronavirus Crisis forces women back into old gender roles after that and bullying Research Shows there is a backward development in partnerships 26 percent of women have reduced their working hours to organize childcare and the Coronavirus Crisis but only 16 percent of men have done so and then and now. The end of a long day and this husband constantine before the crisis he and his wife were both working and taking care of the kits now hes suddenly the classic working dad which is not to his taste item this is brooklyn my money so life as it is not that easy i simply earn more thats what that will hopefully change that one day i wont have to work full time but thats in the future. And i think that our Society Still promotes gender stereotypes that are no longer appropriate. That doesnt recognize the fact that fathers want to be with their children im told by them can nuns well go on. Is it about. Constantino that have to negotiate this french i balance on 2 for one schools for you open they hope to get back to life with more selfdetermination for both of them. And im joined now by Joanna Maycock shes secretary general of the european womens lobby and thats an Umbrella Group of womens advocacy or associations rather in europe and she joins me from brussels welcome joanna now we know theres been damage has uprooted many families and workers why is it that women are carrying such an especially heavy load. Well women are actually the backbone of our societies and they already carry a very heavy load and what this pandemic is done is actually shone a light on and in some cases exacerbate what already very deep rooted inequalities between women and men in europe in fact weve actually stopped progressing on gender equality on equality between women and men in europe we stopped progressing for 10 years already so there was a great deal to do to really start to fast forward and fast practical a t between women and men and certainly this this pandemic weve seen families really challenge them particularly women bearing the brunt of child care all stepping back from that jobs of going part time of being made redundant overwhelmingly women have taken on not burden but we know ready is that women already do the fast majority of childcare unpaid care work and Domestic Work in europe still today and thats probably shifted in the last generation now its all report earlier about and in germany stepping back to care for kids during the pendency can we say that things will go back to normal for her once the schools and Daycare Centers reopen. Yeah i think that story is very very typical for millions and millions of women and millions of families across europe. We really what we see already is that its going to be a Political Choice what happens next and the choices that leaders make right now about the kind of society we want to build post this pandemic the kind of values you want to put at the center of that society are going to be really important with the financial crisis in 2008 what we saw was that miss the response the Political Choice to pursue austerity was really done at the cost of women it was done on the backs of women in fact we saw that women paid around 75 percent of the costs of the cuts to Public Services to cut back to that jobs to cut back to check care infrastructure which impacted on womens labor Market Participation so we need to learn from those mistakes we made then and make sure that now as we as as leaders make choices about the kind of society we want to rebuild after this and then make that the issues of inequality between women a man up a cent to state in the analysis in the policies that put in place and in terms of the budgets that are put in place and in particular the emphasis on care what gives me hope is that actually this pandemic has brought into a public conversation the issues about whos doing that how do we want the care instructed to how do you want to care for our children for older people for each other and and who is going to be doing that so that means we need a really bold new you can deal with europe and you want to briefly if you can are you seeing in the recovery packages that are being laid out right now by individual nations do you see some of these policies being put in there that you want to see events. Weve seen in the response to the pandemic some really Good Measures particularly when it comes to addressing violence against women which weve also seen increased during the pandemic and weve seen a whole political conversation about eldercare child care and care for disabled persons and that disproportionate impact on women but when it comes to the actual response and when it comes to the money which is where we see how the how the policy is translated into action we absolutely have not seen enough we need to see really a least half of the resources for the recovery package going to women so were calling the money at least to go to measures which address the inequities between women a man so no not enough is being done yet all right were going to leave it there Joanna Maycock with the european womens lobby in brussels thank you very much thank you. Its time now to answer your questions about covert 19 over to our science correspondent derek williams. I read that the virus might have arrived in europe by early november is there evidence it was around earlier than in china at the end of december the working thesis has always been that the 1st 1000 infections occurred at a wet market and han back in early december but but theres been a lot of suspicion over over whether that really the whole story especially since a new study that looked at how the virus has evolved says it might have emerged as early as october then another heavily contested report from from harvard researchers which hasnt been Peer Reviewed yet recently also made a splash it looked at among other things satellite images of parking lots on hospitals and it says visitors to them served as early as last august though the authors admitted that their evidence was not an airtight argument for for pushing back the origins of the pandemic so while there are some claims the outbreak began long before the 1st official cases appeared in han there are still only supported by by disputed data. Germany also working on a fax machine for company 19 this question came in a few weeks ago but now it seems like its the right time to answer it since the German GovernmentJust Announced that it was sinking 300000000 euros into a German Biotech Company called cure that you might remember that thats the firm that donald trump allegedly tried to lure to the u. S. Back in march its a vaccine platform which uses whats called messenger r. N. A. To provoke an immune. Bonds is currently in testing in animal models and that and the company says results so far are very promising a rival german firm called by on tech has also teamed up with with u. S. Based company fives are in pursuit of the same goal but it hasnt received any funding from the German Government. I see people jogging in cycling Wearing Masks is that medically advisable 1st of all i can tell you from from from a person who experience that jogging with a mask is no fun at all it gets it gets really hot it is really humid and it seriously affects your performance that said if you are infectious it will probably make you less of a danger to the to the people around you experts now widely except that the virus is transmitted as an aerosol so so theoretically at least an infected person panting along in the park is giving off clouds of floating infectious droplets on the other hand almost all of our solid information on erosive all distribution comes from enclosed spaces what we do know is that is that outdoor transmission of the virus appears to be very rare so long and short like pretty much everyone else here in berlin and i stopped jogging with a mask pretty quickly even though theres no real Scientific Consensus on that. And finally a feast for the eyes thanks dependent measures wildlife is reclaiming the tourist freak a lot of those islands ok to the 1000 kilometers off the coast of ecuador sea lions iguanas and many bird species are now moving freely on the archipelago which has been under lockdown for more than 2 months scientists studying the impact of tourism see a number of key species have returned since travel was halted and theyll compare their observations to measurements taken once tourists return. Thats a for us as always thanks for watching today healthy. Shes no longer alone in belgium mourning more people are rising up as convent see the art historian is fighting against the romanticize ation of her countrys colonial past and for confronting repression she is demanding more equal rights and respect for all nonwhite people together with many others some goods on the girl. Next on t w. Entered the conflict zone with sarah kelly swedens unique trust based approach to tackling the coronavirus pandemic project in the strict lockdowns imposed around the world but the policy has come under increasing criticism and pressure my guest this week is swedens foreign minister and linda with a death toll much higher than its neighbors has sweden made a deadly era conflict. In 60 minutes d. W. We know that this is very time for us the coronavirus is changing the world changing our lives so creams take care of yourself a good distance wash your hands if you can date and how were d. W. For here for you we are working tirelessly to keep you informed dont overplan or were all in this together and together and were making sure it. Stays safe everybody stays in this. So stay safe the 3 of. You. Exist. Would. Be the big hello and a warm welcome to focus on europe protests against Police Brutality and racism are taking place across the continent activists want europe to come to terms with its colonial past and they are targeting the very symbols of the colonial era. In the british city of bristol protesters of dump the statue of a slave trader into the river the belgian king leopold