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Generating more revenues to invest in measures essential to ensuring women’s rights and gender equality depends on progressive and fair tax systems. Today, more than ever, taxing the richest members of our societies will put us on the path to becoming more caring societies.
In the United States, it was Vice President Kamala Harris who sounded the alarm by pointing out that 2.5 million women have been forced to leave the work market since the beginning of the pandemic. “Our economy cannot fully recover unless women can participate fully. So I believe, I think we all believe, this is a national emergency”, she hammered away in a video call held with several women’s advocacy groups and lawmakers, calling for a national plan to address this situation.