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Young Scholars Initiative, South Asia, ran a very engaging Webinar series on Women's Work in South Asia. It was an honour to be invited to speak at this forum on Female Informal Workforce amid COVID-19 on May 18, 2021.
Interesting online conversation on the gender inequality in the North, South, East and West India (February 10, 2021) between Alice Evans, King’s College, and Jeemol Unni, Ahmedabad University. Listen to the conversation in this post.
Performance by Maya Krishna Rao, on the occasion of Women Farmers Day, essaying Women's Work and Contribution to Agriculture, put all our research as Economists to shame. Watch video here
Dr. Jeemol Unni, economist at Ahmedabad University, speaks to Karla Bookman, founder-editor at The Swaddle, about the impact that the jobs crisis will have on women
An interview with Karla Bookman on Social Reproduction Work of Women with Work From Home norms setting in,
With the pandemic, we had a sudden closure of all economic activity. CMIE reported that in April 2020 unemployment rate remained at a high rate of 23.5 percent. The decline in employment is not gender and caste neutral.
Today seems to be my day for exciting news on launches of MOOC course and a BOOK, in both of which I played a part. Both on Women's Work and Informal Employment. And both launches on Labour Day, May 1, 2020. Labour
Macroeconomic Shocks: No second chances for women: The lessons of demonetization for this crisis are clear. Women will be pushed out of the workforce and not get a second chance to find another economic activity. At the same time, men will also face the push but many will try to reinvent their career through changes.
