Cyn-Young Park; Ancilla Marie Inocencio2021-10-052021-10-052020-11978929262469997892926247052071-72022218-2675https://www.adb.org/publications/covid-19-no-excuse-regress-gender-equalityhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/5699This brief provides recommendations for gender-responsive policies and sector-specific strategies in the fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic to help preserve hard-won gains for women. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of women’s pre-crisis social, economic, and political situations. This brief gives an overview of how COVID-19 affects women’s jobs and incomes, education, health and nutrition, and unpaid care work and suggests how policy makers can respond.16GenderHealthEmerging diseasesCOVID-19Social development and protectionSocial protection - labor and employment