As the precautional measure of social distancing find more people working from home, let us reflect on these five possible ways that may help ensure that women and girls are not being left behind as the world sets itself to deal with a humanitarian crisis that we just may never have thought possible.

Spike in the Cases of Gender Based Violence and School Drop Out Rates for Girls

Megan O'Donnell writes that in times of pandemic, women in quarantine are faced with increased risks of intimate partner violence.

Eighty percent of the women in Africa live in the rural areas where they have less access to such basic needs as health care, education and other public facilities or services.

Living in a pandemic that has seen a great deal of information taken by Heads of States on precautionary measures required disseminated through online platform many women and their families may be more pronged to infection as they either do not have all the necessary information on prevention or get the information much later then the general public that is on digital platforms.

This phenomenon of inequality commonly termed as the 'Mobile Gender Gap,' which is currently at 41 percent has significant political and economic consequences for women especially as it relates to the survival of their businesses.