Gender-responsive social protection post-COVID-19

Science. 2022 Mar 11;375(6585):1111-1113. doi: 10.1126/science.abm5922. Epub 2022 Mar 10.

¹ Social and Economic Policy Unit, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Office of Research-Innocenti, Belgrade, Serbia.
² Social Policy Unit, UNICEF, Panama City, Panama.
³ ODI, London, UK.
⁴ Policy Division, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, London, UK.
⁵ Research and Data Section, UN Women, New York, NY, USA.
⁶ Child Poverty and Social Protection Unit, UNICEF, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, Brasilia, Brazil.
⁸ Save the Children, London, UK.
⁹ Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
¹⁰ Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, USA.
¹¹ Economic Empowerment Section, UN Women, New York, NY, USA.
¹² Social Protection Programme, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, Makhanda, South Africa.
¹³ Gender Team, United Nations Development Programme, New York, NY, USA.
¹⁴ Social Policy Unit, UNICEF, Amman, Jordan.
¹⁵ Social Protection Unit, World Food Programme, Rome, Italy.

Abstract

Investment in gender-responsive social protection systems and evidence is key to a more equal future post-COVID-19.