How crises impact gender equality

Dear friends,

I would like to share with you a report we published today, Women and COVID-19: The Impact of Crises on Gender Equality. Based on a review of international research, the report, written by our policy and legislation director Shai Oxenberg, describes how times of crisis may deepen existing gender inequality and disproportionally affect women as compared to men. Available on our website in Hebrew with a synopsis in English, the report examines the management of the 2008 world economic crisis and the Ebola and Zika health crises, and reminds us that men are better positioned to deal with economic crises. Reasearch shows that men generally enjoy better economic security, as they have higher status and wages in the labor market, and hold more wealth. But the report also presents the potential embedded in the current, coronavirus crisis, to either erode hard-won achievements to women’s rights, or to harness gender equality as an engine for strengthening the entire society. Let us hope that the second option is employed this time, for the benefit of us all.

Stay healthy and safe,

Yours,

Michal Gera Margaliot

Executive Director

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The New York dream team of feminist leaders

We are proud to report that Michal Gera Margaliot, the Israel Women’s Network’s Executive Director, was selected for the Collective of 10 leading CEOs, announced last Wednesday (April 22nd) in a festive Zoom ceremony, as the new dream team cohort of women leaders by the Jewish Women’s Federation of New York.

Three Executive Directors of social change organizations from Israel, six from the US and one from Spain, were selected through a stringent process designated to identify their unique leadership potential. The initiative was launched at the JWFNY last year, as a greenhouse for leaders of social change who combine vision, innovation and leadership in dealing with needs of the utmost importance, especially such that pertain to women and girls, in Jewish and other communities. Alongside Gera Margaliot, Israeli collectivists include Yael Rockman, Executive Director of Kolech - Religious Women’s Forum, and Michal Avera Samuel, CEO of the Fidel Association. Looking forward to working together!

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