“Women across the globe have been disproportionately affected by the Pandemic, representing 70% of all job losses. In addition, 56% of women workers held occupations in the 5C’s category: caring, cashiering, catering, cleaning and clerical functions. Many of these positions are essential workers, which means more women than men have had to risk their health and safety for the overall good of our community.”
Melissa Coomber-Bendtsen
This is a quote from the CEO of the Regina YWCA at this years Women of Distinction awards.
Once you see it, or hear it, you can’t un-see it, or un-hear it! This is not an untold story, but it is not a fully told story! It felt staggering to me.
We are clearly not in this together!!
I am a woman entrepreneur and I too would like to be called an “entrepreneur” with no identifier, but this is an example of how far away we are from equity in the workforce, on boards and in the 5 C’s.
Sometimes I grow weary – equity and injustice weary!
But weariness has never stopped women.
And so we carry on, finding opportunities to make change. Women and men together until we are truly in “this” together!
