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A normalisation of WFH is unlikely to raise women’s participation in the labour force

The experience of the pandemic teaches us that a normalisation of WFH — without concomitant changes that reduce the burden…
Pandemics and women’s labour market participation in India: A long view

The experience of the pandemic teaches us that a normalisation of ‘working from home’ supposedly allows women to participate in…
Teaching in the Time of Isolation

But in this virtual non-existent classroom, there was nobody but me. And I was talking to my inanimate, unresponsive, expressionless…
Protecting women is missing from pandemic management measures in India

The most horrific and obvious impact of the lockdown imposed to flatten the curve has been a rise in domestic…
What Women Do: Is it even “work” ?

Women who are working, for them it’s not just about doing well at their jobs. But it’s about doing well…
In locked down India, women fight coronavirus and domestic violence

The chart shows that there is already a sharp jump in complaints related to domestic violence and the “right to…
Developing Nations and COVID 19

Looking at the pandemic and its responses through the gender lens is needed, if not for anything else then just…
France Eases Lockdown

What the pandemic is revealing is just how important migrants are to production and service provision in the Indian economy.…
League of nations: guessing our way out of lockdown

In the fight against COVID-19, many other essential diseases and outbreaks are getting ignored. Now we’re getting reports about Dengue,…
Living with lockdowns: Early lessons from India’s COVID-19 response

Women do between six to nine times more hours of domestic work than men…Ignoring gender will slow down the fight…
Life after Lockdown: Gender equality

Overall, the representation of women in decision-making bodies is not that high at all…What that does is that it makes…
What Does Work-From-Home Mean for Women?

It has been estimated that in 2019, the imputed value of this unpaid reproductive work by women was equivalent of…
Gender Matters: COVID-19 and the labour market in the Global South

When women have less decision-making power than men, either in households or government, their needs are less likely to be…
Implications of the Covid-19 Crisis for Labour and Employment in India: Impact, Strategies and Perspectives

On average, in India, employment in April 2020 was about 67% of employment in the previous year…Women relative to their…
Is work from home feasible in the long run?

I do hope that increased possibilities of employment for women will go hand in hand with changes in the gender…
Gender Disparity in India’s Lockdown-Induced Job Losses

On one hand, you see a dop in their [women’s] employment. On the other hand, you see that when you…
Did Indian Men Do More Housework During Lockdown? It Depends

It is also worth noting that the data confirms that, even with men helping out more around the house in…
Interpreting Gendered Impacts of Recent Economic Shocks

Now that work from home has become normalised for everybody, hopefully, the stigma that was attached earlier to working from…
Post-Lockdown, Marginalised Castes Suffered More Job Losses

Since the upper castes have more access to education and thereby have more secure jobs, they are less vulnerable to…
Nirmala Sitharaman Should Remember That a Stimulus Delayed Is a Quick Recovery Denied

While relief is of the essence in the short term, the far greater task is that of a reconstruction that…
India needs a strong fiscal stimulus

Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stated “Jaan bhi aur jahan bhi”, implying that the economy cannot be ignored even…