https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚨" title="Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht" aria-label="Emoji: Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht">Women in the North have borne the brunt of Covid-19 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚨" title="Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht" aria-label="Emoji: Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht">
 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👨‍🍳" title="Koch" aria-label="Emoji: Koch"> Nearly half of Northern women work in sectors most impacted by the pandemic

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📦" title="Paket" aria-label="Emoji: Paket"> Inequalities don’t fit in neat boxes. Injustice is intersectional

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📝" title="Memo" aria-label="Emoji: Memo"> Recovery plans must include women’s voices https://bit.ly/3aN8XrA ">https://bit.ly/3aN8XrA&q...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👩🏽‍⚕️" title="Woman health worker (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman health worker (mittlerer Hautton)"> in the past year, 23% of working women in the North worked in high risk occupations like health & social care - on the front line during the pandemic.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👨🏼‍⚕️" title="Medizinischer Angestellter (mittelheller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Medizinischer Angestellter (mittelheller Hautton)">In comparison, working men in the North make up 6% of this figure.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen">We took an intersectional approach to our research to show that Northern women of colour can face gender inequalities alongside economic, regional, health inequalities and racial injustices.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📉" title="Tabelle mit Abwärtstrend" aria-label="Emoji: Tabelle mit Abwärtstrend">These inequalities have widened and worsened in the past year due to the pandemic.

The pandemic has risked reversing the limited gains we’ve made in progressing gender equality.

This is why as we move forward, any plans for recovery MUST include women’s voices. As a starting point, here’s a few things northern leaders can do: