Study: Moroccan Women Disproportionately Impacted by COVID-19 Crisis

"This category of Moroccan and global society is disproportionately suffering the repercussions of the Covid-19 crisis, in more than one aspect of social life," say the authors of the report. Senior Fellow Aomar Ibourk, economist Tayeb Ghazi and President of the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) Karim El Aynaoui note that the repercussions of the health crisis are observed at several levels: employment and income, health and education, and that Moroccan women are "overrepresented" in the frontline jobs against the coronavirus.

"They represent, in fact, 57% of the medical staff, 66% of the paramedical staff and 64% of the civil servants in the social sector" and play a "disproportionate" role in the response against the disease, the authors of the report point out. Similarly, women are "considerably" present in the sectors severely affected by the health crisis, "including industry which accounts for a tenth of women’s employment, trade which accounts for about 5% of women’s employment, and 1/10 of the employment of educated women, as well as the restaurant and hotel industry of which 20% of the workforce is female," the report indicates.