This publication contributes substance to what should be integral part of a new social contract in relation to gender aspects. In a unique manner it analysis important elements of gender in-equality in six articles covering four different countries – Cambodia, China, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe. The issues range from challenges in accessing sexual reproductive rights, handling of violence against women to child abuse. None of these issues are new but they have been severely aggravated during the Covid-19 crisis and thereby made the challenges so visible that the urgency to addressing them has become inescapable.