Has Covid-19 given women the chance to make their mark in private equity?

Home working has enabled more flexibility

While the damage wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic has been all-encompassing, research shows that it is women who have been disproportionately impacted.

PWC's Women in Work 2021 research reports that women's job losses outpaced men's in 2020, with women forced to reduce their participation in the workforce due to the disproportionate burden of care. The findings point to a worrying reversal in progress towards gender parity in the workplace, prompting businesses across all sectors to reprioritise a recovery from Covid, which puts equality front and centre. Although discouraging, can these circumstances create a vital moment for change? And against this backdrop, what is the view from private equity, specifically? We know that the s...