COVID-19 in South Africa: The Outsized Impact on Women in the Informal Economy

Apr 21 2020

In South Africa, estimates suggest COVID-19 destroyed a decade’s worth of employment growth in just four months. And of  the 3 million jobs lost in Q1 and Q2, according to NIDS-CRAM data, two million were held by women. The Q3 labor force survey shows that some jobs have  recovered, but that unemployment has grown overall.