Kathmandu, July 5 -- At a time when tens of thousands of Nepali migrant workers are bearing the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in various labour destination countries, it is the women workers who are having it worse, according to labour migration experts and human rights workers.

They say women workers are facing hardship from various fronts in the wake of the pandemic further aggravating their seemingly never-ending struggle as migrant workers and putting them at higher risk of exploitation.

"Nepali women migrant workers have been bearing the most brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic," Ashok Rana, chairperson of National Network for Safe Migration, an umbrella organisation of civil society groups working in the field of labour migration, s...