Mashat: Putting policies in place to help women during Covid is something Egypt has prioritised

  • Date: 26-Jan-2021
  • Source: Egypt Today
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:Egypt
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Mashat: Putting policies in place to help women during Covid is something Egypt has prioritised

Minister of International Cooperation, Dr. Rania Al Mashat- press photo







CAIRO - 26 January 2021: Putting policies in place to help women during Covid is something Egypt has prioritised, said Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al-Mashat.



The minister's remarks were made at a virtual meeting at the World Economic Forum on Monday. The WEF panel session focused on the challenges women have faced since the start of the Covid crisis, including what the Forum calls a “double-double shift” of at least 20 hours per week of additional work for women at home.

Participants in the session included Kevin Sneader, global managing partner at the management consultancy McKinsey & Company and Michael Neidorff, chairman, president and chief executive of the healthcare multinational, Centene Corporation and editor-in-chief of The National Newspaper Mina Al-Oraibi.

Mashat said: "When the nation's workers were suddenly forced to work from home at the start of