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Gender Bias Cannot Explain the Pandemic Response

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Gender Bias Cannot Explain the Pandemic Response
Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's COVID-19 technical lead and head of emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, looks on during a press conference at the World Health Organisation's headquarters in Geneva on Dec. 14, 2022. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Women were notably victimized by lockdowns, masking, and vaccine mandates. The lockdowns yanked many working women with children out of the workforce, closed child care and schooling, and forced them back into the home. Millions were hit by this fate, and many are still not back at work. Labor force participation by working-age women is back where it was decades ago.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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