From mass job losses to soaring domestic violence, the rise of revenge porn and a widening gender poverty gap, 2020 has threatened to hobble progress on women's equality as the Covid-19 pandemic wreaks global havoc.
UN experts predict the gender poverty gap will widen in 2021 amid the economic downturn.
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