Kim Adeson Guarin

BSME 4B

WOMEN’S MONTH CELEBRATION 2022

The webinar focus on The 2022 National Women’s Month Celebration (NWMC)
endeavors to highlight the gains achieved for women and girls, assess actions towards
gender equality and look forward to steps that must be taken to ensure progress in
empowering women. With the country still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, studies
and data show that the health crisis stalled movements towards gender equality,
worsening inequalities, further exposing gender gaps, and exacerbating vulnerabilities
in social and political, and economic aspects.
As we celebrate the continued accomplishments of women in our communities,
heavy on our minds are the enduring challenges for women in all areas of our societies.
In the past year, the global pandemic has endured and exposed more of its gendered
impacts on women, girls, and gender diverse individuals. Unpaid care labour still falls
largely to women, intimate partner violence increased, and income supports for sex
workers were denied by the government. Women are also still recovering from
unemployment, having lost more than twice the jobs as men at the start of the
pandemic. While it’s important to continue examining the ripple effects of COVID-19 in
all areas of daily life, it’s important to look back critically on a year that was also rampant
with many forms of gendered violence. Economic challenges are also being
experienced as one of the most pressing issues in the country, and women, especially
those who are heads of households, are even more disproportionately affected. This
blatant institutionalized discrimination against women threatens their safety and
economic prosperity, and effective governance in the country It demands that we in the
international community remain firm in our commitment to support women’s rights .In
our ultimate vision for women and girls, their rights and lives are fully upheld and
protected, and weighted with the value they have always deserved. It’s our actions that
will bring us there.