01888nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100002700041245011200068260004500180300003500225520137900260650008201639773004501721210310b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aGupta, Shobha Kumari.   aRole of women in fighting covid-19 epidemic in Bihar: Astudy in the governmental and voluntary perspectives  aBihar Journal of Public Administration    a17(1), Jan-June, 2020: p.77-84  aIn view of the greater roles of women in fighting Covid-19 pandemic, it becomes an urgent imperative to analyse their roles in the garb of some modern concepts like voluntarism, social capital and empowerment. As such the paper examines their roles in implementing the policies to tackle the pandemic in two major perspectives – namely roles played as part of governmenntal agencies and secondly voluntarism. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of their roles reflect that women play significant roles in all spheres of tackling Covid-19 pandemic like prevention, protection, treatment and raising awareness of the pandemic among the masses. Women played profound roles in India in general and in Bihar in particular. In addition to women in government agencies, their voluntary efforts have also been commendable. The nature of the roles played by them reflect the maturity and self assertiveness in their participation to the implementation process. The present study finds the ingredients of voluntarism and social capital in their roles. Their roles through SHGs, voluntary development organisations and voluntarism at individual level indicate that Covid-19 has facilitated women’s empowerment in India in general and in Bihar in particular. The nature of their roles has been found to be free of socio-economic and cultural discriminations. – Reproduced 

  aCovid-19, Voluntarism, Social capital, Raising awareness, Roles, Bihar, India  aBihar Journal of Public Administration