UNICEF: Female Household Heads Face Greater Socio-economic Challenges
By Yeong Pey Jung
March 2025 FEATURE
ALTHOUGH THE GLOBAL economy has largely recovered since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, lingering socio-economic impacts of the pandemic are still largely felt by low-income communities. With increasing costs of living in post-pandemic conditions, these families are feeling the brunt more than ever. These effects are particularly prominent for women and children in low-income households.Many women were among the first to feel the impact when the economy shut down during the pandemic. In Penang, many of them...
Yeong Pey Jung
is a senior analyst with the Socioeconomics and Statistics Programme at Penang Institute. She is a reading enthusiast and is surgically attached to her Kindle.
