In supporting the above perspective, one government officer said this: “If the sector is dominated by men like film industry, and camera industry, more males are negatively affected. But in design and fashion industry which are dominated by females, more females are negatively affected”. (IDI in rural Zambia). 2.3.3: Perspective.3: Women are worst affected by Covid-19 in those economic activities dominated by women In this perspective provided also by handful respondents, it is held that in those economic activities dominated by females, females have been negatively affected. This include marketeers, fashion and design industry, domestic work, and commercial sex work among other categories. For instance, a national association of informal economic workers that deal with over 240,000 marketeers, vendors and hawkers in both rural and urban Zambia provided the above perspective using this statistical explanation: “In markets, women are the worst affected. T his is because women account for more than 70% of the members. They are the majority in markets” (IDI in Urban Zambia). In rural Zambia, the same voice echo is heard: “Female headed households have been more negatively affected. This is because they alone and there is no one to complement their economic survival efforts.” (IDI in urban Zambia). One government officer brought out this perspective in this way: ‘Both males and females are affected. But there are women working as waitresses in hospitality industry than males. In that sector, we can say than they are more females than males that negatively affected by Covid­19.” (IDI in Urban Zambia). Data provided on both perspectives can be interpreted using the concepts of business relationships and economic power(ILO, 2020; World Bank, 2020). That is, in both perspectives, it is evident that respondents hold the view that in both male dominated and female dominated informal economy activities, the business relationships have been negatively affected by Covid-19. As a result, even their economic powers have either weakened or died. 75