A cottage industry worker at her loom in Mayapur, West Bengal, India. Women are a huge part of the workforce responding to the pandemic, but the gender pay gap and the large burden of unpaid child care and housework mean women will suffer disproportionately in the coming recession, experts say.

First published in the April 17, 2020, 1:22 a.m. edition

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