Pandemic Hits Mental Health of Women and Young People Hardest

Young people and women have taken the hardest psychological and financial hit from the pandemic, a YouGov survey has found. The annual YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project found that in many of the 27 countries surveyed, young people were consistently more likely than their elders to feel the COVID-19 crisis had made their financial and mental health concerns worse. Comparable proportions of young and older people said they were worrying more about money as a result of the pandemic, while across several measures, women were also consistently more likely than men to report a negative impact from crisis. In the U.S., 53 percent of women say their working life has become more stressful since the pandemic started.