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UN chief warns COVID-19 is increasing inequality for women

by Associated Press
| April 9, 2020 2:27 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic is deepening already existing inequalities and “is having devastating social and economic consequences for women and girls” that could reverse limited progress toward gender equality over the last 25 years.

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