China virus fight sparks outcry over female front-line staff
Medical staff carrying out disinfection work in the makeshift Wuhan Fangcang hospital to treat Covid-19 patients in Wuhan, Hubei province, recently. While provincial leaders in China are overwhelmingly male, women account for the majority of nurses and doctors on the front line. – EPA pic, March 7, 2020.
CHINA’S fight against the coronavirus epidemic has triggered anger over the neglect of front-line female workers who have struggled to access menstrual products, battled with ill-fitting equipment and had their heads shaved. Reports that some medical staff were given birth control pills to delay their periods have also prompted outrage.
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