OP-ED: We see equal

March, women’s history month, closes with the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico and against the background of significant setbacks on the empowerment of women caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. From our seats in the General Assembly and our screens at home we have seen it growing: The increase in deaths, gender-based, including intimate partner violence, abuse of women and girls who speak out, the widening of the gender gap for access to digital technologies, the loss of jobs, the decrease of women’s participation in public life and decision-making, disrupted access to essential health care, increase in child marriage, and the diminished access to education.