Across every sphere of life—health, economy, social security, livelihood and education—the impacts of COVID-19 are exacerbated for women due to persisting gender inequalities. Women are not only more likely to contract COVID-19, but also lockdowns have affected women’s economic and social security disproportionately due to increased unpaid care work at home, women’s high representation in vulnerable employment or employment in the informal labour sector. Upon the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020, the Egyptian Government adopted a variety of public health measures to contain the widespread of the virus on 14 March 2020, accompanied by certain mitigation measures to reduce disproportionate impacts on women. Against this backdrop, this article examines the existence and scope of an international obligation to adopt mitigation measures to reduce disproportionate impacts on women and analyzes Egypt’s COVID-19 response against such obligation.

在生活的各个领域——健康、经济、社会保障、生计和教育——由于持续存在的性别不平等，COVID -19 对女性的影响加剧。女性不仅更有可能感染COVID -19，而且由于在家无偿护理工作的增加、女性在弱势就业或在非正规劳动部门就业的比例很高，封锁对女性的经济和社会保障产生了不成比例的影响。在世界卫生组织 ( WHO)宣布COVID -19 为大流行病后) 2020 年 3 月 11 日，埃及政府于 2020 年 3 月 14 日采取了各种公共卫生措施来遏制该病毒的广泛传播，同时还采取了某些缓解措施，以减少对妇女的过度影响。在此背景下，本文研究了采取缓解措施以减少对妇女的不成比例影响的国际义务的存在和范围，并分析了埃及针对此类义务的COVID -19 响应。