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This edited volume critically reflects on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect women in India. Drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative research, contributors analyze the implications of the pandemic on the informal sector, migrant women workers, women in the health care sector, women's economic engagement, the experiences of elderly women, mental health care, higher education, and more. Chapters also consider what gender-responsive policies are needed to ensure women's equal rights, representation, and participation in society during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This timely and relevant volume situates India within the larger global context of conversations around economic, social and political consequences of the pandemic upon gender inequalities
This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and policy makers in the fields of Sociology, Gender Studies, and Public and Social Policy.
List of contents
1: Gender dimensions of COVID 19: An overview.- 2: Pandemic crisis and economic engagement of women: A historical enquiry on implications of catastrophes on female economic participation.- 3: Economic challenges for women in post COVID India.- 4: Stay home, stay unproductive: Self -employed and home-based women entrepreneurs during COVID 19.- 5: The plight of migrant women workers: Looking at 'ghar wapsi' through a gender lens.- 6: COVID-19 and the challenges of Anganwadi and ASHA workers with special reference to Maharashtra.- 7: COVID-19- Gendered experiences of frontline health workers in Kerala.- 8: Existing reproductive rights and health framework for Indian women: Prevalent disharmony due to perinatal depression and its exacerbation due to Covid-19.- 9: Gender dimensions of mental health during COVID-19 in Assam.- 10: Quality of life of elderly women during the pandemic-COVID-19.- 11: Gender, the pandemic and education policies: Higher education at the cross roads.- 12: Challenges during and due to COVID-19 pandemic in the lives of transgender persons in Kerala.- 13: Undesirable citizens: Stigma and struggles of sex workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.- 14: Cyber crimes against Indian women: Before and during Covid-19.- 15: Gender equality in the criminal justice system of India: the state of Kerala during Covid-19.- 16: Conclusion.
About the author
Irene George is an adjunct faculty at the Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies, UAE. and coeditor of the Handbook of Research on Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment. She presents and publishes widely on gender issues.
Moly Kuruvilla is the Founding Director and Professor at Department of Women's Studies, University of Calicut, Kerala, India and advisor to the Asian-African Association for Women, Gender and Sexuality (AAAWGS). She is also coeditor of the Handbook of Research on Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment (IGI Global, California).
