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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many of society’s most urgent issues.
And that includes gender inequities, which have resulted in women – particularly those in rural communities – experiencing a greater impact than men from the pandemic, said Ashleigh Weeden, the keynote speaker during a Women’s Centre Grey-Bruce virtual event to honour International Women’s Day Monday.
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“The necessary responses to COVID and the way it’s impacted all aspects of our lives tend to fall disproportionally on women because of the roles that women are occupying in our social, economic and political systems,” said Weeden, a PhD candidate in rural studies at the University of Guelph.