Advocacy Specialist: Women and Survey Results

advocacy specialist: The survey results, released Thursday, showed that while men had also taken on more domestic work within the home, the largest chunk of that burden had still fallen to women, according to CTV. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox COVID-19 has blown open the debate about the value of care work in our lives, Dana Stefov, a women's rights policy and advocacy specialist with Oxfam Canada, said in a press release. More than 1,500 Canadians participated in a wide-ranging survey conducted by Oxfam in May and June that included more than 6,300 men and women from five different countries. It has been so invisible, for so long, that it has taken a global pandemic of epic proportions to draw attention to the value of the caring and household work that women do, and the impact it has on their lives. The survey found that women living in poverty and ethnic and racial minorities suffered the largest economic impact due to increased household burdens during COVID-19. Read more Women disproportionately 'bearing the brunt' of coronavirus crisis, advocates say And the impact that this added labour had was not equal across all women in Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.