Women are the front-line soldiers in the battle against coronavirus — but we're still not paying them as much as men, 18 April 2020

Although recent data shows more men are dying from the novel coronavirus than women, women could be more financially impacted than men by the economic fallout caused by the outbreak. Women make up a large share of the labor force in jobs and industries that have had job cuts and layoffs in the past few weeks, as well as occupations on the front lines of the pandemic...

Not only are these women putting their own health at risk by working in these positions during a pandemic or trying to manage work with other family responsibilities, they also aren't earning as much as their male counterparts in these professions.

According to a Fortune article for March 31's Equal Pay Day, the pay gap "worsens" the coronavirus' financial impact for women.