South Asia’s women leaders: disaster management, gender equality and COVID-19

Women leaders in South Asia continue to remain invisible in the global discourse on women’s leadership in the COVID-19 crisis. Here Sugandha Parmar and Akhil Neelam (co-founders of Women for Politics) argue that despite high levels of gender inequality in South Asia, the region has many positive examples of effective leadership of women politicians fighting the COVID-19 crisis.