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This will bring the total number of women and girls living on USD 1.90 or less, to 435 million. The recently released report shows that the pandemic will push 96 million people into extreme poverty by 2021, 47 million of whom are women and girls. Weakened social protection systems have left many of the poorest in society unprotected, with no safeguards to weather the storm,” says Ginette Azcona, lead author of UN Women’s latest report From Insights to Action and UN Women’s Senior Research and Data Specialist. Then came COVID-19, and with it, massive job losses, shrinking of economies and loss of livelihoods, particularly for women. “For the last 22 years, extreme poverty globally had been declining. Here’s how COVID-19 is rolling back on women’s economic gains of past decades, unless we act now, and act deliberately. At 28 per cent, the gender pay gap in the health sector is higher than the overall gender pay gap (16 per cent). Globally, 70 per cent of health workers and first responders are women, and yet, they are not at par with their male counterparts. Women who are poor and marginalized face an even higher risk of COVID-19 transmission and fatalities, loss of livelihood, and increased violence. While everyone is facing unprecedented challenges, women are bearing the brunt of the economic and social fallout of COVID-19.