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This presentation details the disparate impact of COVID-19 on women, emphasizing the historic economic and racial disparities This presentation is sponsored by the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights in recognition of the 2021 Women's History Month. Please register individually...do not register more than one person per email.
This two-hour interactive presentation will detail the disparate impact of COVID-19 on women with an emphasis on the longstanding economic and racial disparities that have led to the exacerbation of systemic and structural inequity. Topics that will be covered include:
*Employee’s rights if they have COVID (what to do about FMLA, Vaccine mandates, caretaking duties, unemployment and under-employment etc.)
*The “she-cession”
*The disproportionate impact of the pandemic on Women of Color as well as low-wage workers
*The vulnerability of women (especially women with children) to housing insecurity and harassment during the pandemic.
Presented by Glendora Hughes, General Counsel for the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights and Michelle Daugherty Siri, Executive Director, The Women's Law Center of Maryland
The Zoom link for the program will be sent after the registration has been closed