THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON WOMEN AND GIRLS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The impacts of crises are never gender-neutral, and COVID-19 is no exception. For the single mother in Nigeria, COVID-19 lockdown measures has paused her small business that brings food to the table. This study dwells in the impact of coronavirus on women and girls both at homes and workplaces. We all know that majority of health workers are women and this pandemic impacted on them negatively. It is not only that they are impacted greatly but also the lockdowns brought with it violence against these women by their partners and girls who were in schools before the covid-19 lockdowns are violated and some became pregnant and most unlikely to go back to school after the pandemic lockdowns. The study looked at the pandemic and gender equality, effects on girls’ education, and its socio-economic impacts on women and girls. The importance of this is to x-ray and evaluate the intricacies of covid-19 as it applies to women and girls in Nigeria. While everyone is facing unprecedented challenges, women are bearing the brunt of the economic and social fallout of COVID-19. With the threat by Rivers State Governor Wike of another Covid-19 second wave lockdown, women and girls are surely going to bear the brunt of this impending lockdown.