and i'm joined now by joanna maycock she secretary general of the european women's lobby that's an umbrella group of women's advocacy or associations rather in europe and she joins me from brussels welcome joanna now we know that the pandemic has uprooted many families and workers why is it that women are carrying such an especially heavy load where women are actually the backbone of our society that may already carry a very heavy load and what this pandemic is done is actually shone a light on and in some cases exacerbate what we're already very deep rooted inequalities between women and men in europe in fact we've actually stopped progressing on gender equality on equality between women and men in europe stop progressing for 10 years already so there is a great deal to do to really start to fast forward and fast practical it's here between women and men and certainly this this pandemic we've seen families really challenge them particularly women bearing the brunt of child care of stepping back from that jokes of going part time of being made redundant overwhelmingly women have taken on no

and i'm joined now by joanna maycock she's secretary general of the european women's lobby that's an umbrella group of women's advocacy or associations rather in europe and she joins me from brussels welcome joanna now we know that the pandemic has uprooted many families and workers why is it that women are carrying such an especially having load. where women are actually the backbone of our society that they already carry a very heavy load and what this pandemic is done is actually shone a light on and in some cases exacerbate what already very deep rooted inequalities between women and men in europe in fact we've actually stopped progressing on gender equality on equality between women and men in europe we've stopped progressing for 10 years already so there was a great deal to do to really start to fast forward and fast practical a t between women and men and certainly this this pandemic we've seen families really challenge them particularly women bearing the brunt of child care all stepping back from that jokes of going part time or being made redundant overwhelmingly women have t