How Jordan’s COVID19 Measures Are Crushing Women’s Participation in the Workplace

How Jordan’s COVID19 Measures Are Crushing Women’s Participation in the Workplace

Despite a successful government approach to avoid a community spread of COVID-19 prior to August 2020, Jordan has unfortunately slid into a sharp spike in cases over the last two months, recent decisions taken by the Jordanian government to curb the spread of the virus seem to have ignored some social realities, especially those related to women.

There is a discussion that the two-month lockdown imposed in Jordan and elsewhere around the world has severely impacted the economy, which has urged the government to think of other approaches that can both contain the spread of the pandemic and maintain the already fragile economy.

In Jordan, the government has resorted to weekend curfews and closures of schools, universities, and places of worship, hoping that this will stop "unnecessary" social gatherings. However, the most recent