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PAHO Director calls for more women in leadership of the fight against COVID-19 8 Mar 2021
Washington, D.C., 8 March 2021 (PAHO) Marking
International Women’s Day, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Carissa F. Etienne today said that women are “on the frontlines” of the fight against COVID-19 but underrepresented in global and national health leadership. She called for building leadership with the “full involvement of women” during and after the pandemic.
“Women make up the great majority of health care workers,” Dr. Etienne said during a virtual International Women’s Day conference hosted by PAHO. “They head households and are the main providers for many of these households – much of this is unpaid work and in the informal labor workforce. Indeed women are at the very heart of the response, yet women remain disproportionately underrepresented in national and global health leadership, whether in health institutions or other policy
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