Manila, July 20 -- Inequalities between women and men in the job market that have been exacerbated due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic will persist and there will be 13 million fewer women employed in 2021 than in 2019, while men's employment will have succeeded in recovering, an International Labor Organization (ILO) report projected Monday.
"Even though the projected jobs growth in 2021 for women exceeds that of men, it will, nonetheless, be insufficient to bring women back to pre-pandemic employment levels," the ILO report says.
Only 43.2 percent of the world's working-age women will have employment in 2021 compared to 68.6 percent of working-age men.
The ILO report is titled 'Building Forward Fairer: Women's right...