The Impact of Women's Empowerment on SDGs in the Digital Era

Abstract

Women lost more jobs than men during COVID-19 perhaps due to caring for families and homeschooling children. However, is this really the case? Globally, women of the workforce lost $800B in income the first year of the pandemic. Does workforce include women who work in “Corporate America” or corporate jobs? Women who are entrepreneurs also formally and informally employ workers and themselves. Curiously, does the $800B context include more involuntary terminations of employment than voluntary? Are the involuntary terminations due to the assumption that women are nurturers and are immediately expected to become homemakers and homeschoolers during crises? Women have been discriminated against for years including with financial inclusion and gaining an education. Nevertheless, entrepreneurship, UN SDGs, and technology can be catalysts to women's empowerment, women's re-employment, and pandemic global economic recovery with discrimination alleviation.