It is announced that women constitute up to 70 percent of the healthcare workforce, giving an essential contribution to fencing the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Yet the pandemic has taken an extensive psychological and physical toll on frontline healthcare workers due to prolonged working hours, isolation from their families, social stigma, direct and prolonged exposure to the virus, and many other factors. Working under such extreme conditions has often increased existing challenges within health systems, including gender inequality.