Vibhuti Patel Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic and resultant lockdown (from 24-3-2020 to 3-5-2020) demanding ‘social distancing’ and ‘stay at home’ orders have disproportionately burdened women and girls in Maharashtra. Gendered experiences of COVID-19 are shaped by the intersection of inequalities…
Break the Inertia! Tikender Singh Panwar The Covid situation is worsening in India by the day due to mismanagement of the second wave. Thousands are dying and lakhs are getting infected every day. Gory stories and scary pictures are posted…
The Gendered Impact of COVID-19 has exacerbated existing inequalities. Women have had been burdened further. At this time there is a need for a community response to gendered impact of COVID-19.
Gendered experiences of Pandemic due to COVID-19 is manifested in the intersection of inequalities in the labour markets, intra-household power relations during stay-at-home and lockdown orders in the matters concerning care, stress and domestic violence; working from home along with housework, gendered experiences of household responsibilities, domestic violence, sexual violence and child sexual abuse in camps/shelter homes, mental health issues, personal care and frontline healthcare service to the family members.
A whole year of uncertainty and deprivation, of constantly adapting to shocks and new realities, has left India’s informal workforce in an economically and emotionally brittle condition. The Migrants re-exodus amidst second wave, they have no choice left.
Amita Singh Despite forewarnings, India found itself completely unprepared to tackle the lethal second wave of Covid-19 thanks to delayed decision-making and uncoordinated efforts by the administration. To prevent such a disaster from recurring, the system needs to enable decentralised…