Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on women informal sector workers: A study of urban slums of Kodambakkam, central Chennai
By: Amudha, A. and Kalyani, S
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BookPublisher: Bihar Journal of Public Administration Description: 18(1A), Jan-Jun, 2021: p.145-155.Subject(s): Covid-19, Women workers, Informal sectors, Urban slums, Tamil Nadu
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Bihar Journal of Public AdministrationSummary: A sizable of women are engaged in informal sector in world and India has even more i.e. three fourths of them work in informal sectors among which almost half work in home based or domestic natured jobs. With the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, these women became vulnerable to both economic and emotional struggles like loss of job, poor treatment at work place, increase in work load etc. added by household burdens. Unemployment has been connected to serious danger of developing depression, anxiety, substance misuse and viciousness. Infact, multiple studies show individuals who lose their jobs are twice as prone to report depression and anxiety when contrasted with individuals who remain steadily employed. This study intends to elicit the economic, psychological and physical problems faced by them during the Covid lockdown through the micro level empirical enquiry in urban slums in Chennai. – Reproduced
http://www.iipabiharbranch.org/upload/Complete%20BJPA%20Vol.%20XVIII%20No.%201A%20(Covid%20special%20issue)%202021.pdf
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A sizable of women are engaged in informal sector in world and India has even more i.e. three fourths of them work in informal sectors among which almost half work in home based or domestic natured jobs. With the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, these women became vulnerable to both economic and emotional struggles like loss of job, poor treatment at work place, increase in work load etc. added by household burdens. Unemployment has been connected to serious danger of developing depression, anxiety, substance misuse and viciousness. Infact, multiple studies show individuals who lose their jobs are twice as prone to report depression and anxiety when contrasted with individuals who remain steadily employed. This study intends to elicit the economic, psychological and physical problems faced by them during the Covid lockdown through the micro level empirical enquiry in urban slums in Chennai. – Reproduced
http://www.iipabiharbranch.org/upload/Complete%20BJPA%20Vol.%20XVIII%20No.%201A%20(Covid%20special%20issue)%202021.pdf
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