How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected the position of women in European countries? Within the project Pulse of Europe – Media Trips to EU, Katarina Djordjević, a journalist of the "Politika" daily researched how women in Denmark and Serbia, more often employed in service professions, are affected by work in emergency circumstances brought by the pandemic.
According to a recent survey by the American magazine "US News and World Report", Denmark is at the top of the list of countries for women's lives, primarily due to the high level of gender equality achieved. However, the pandemic brought an increase in violence against women in Denmark as well, the author of the text writes in the article. The vice-president of the Danish Women's Association, founded in 1871, Signe Gisel Schmidt told "Politika" that a significant increase in violence against women was noted in that Scandinavian country.
The article also offers the analysis of the situation in Serbia during the pandemic, where women are the majority workforce in vital sectors - 79 percent of women work in the health care sector, the social protection sector employs as many as 93 percent of women, while in education this portion totals to 73 percent:
http://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/468798/Pandemija-pogorsala-zivot-zena-u-Srbiji-i-Danskoj
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