Analysis and Insights

Post-COVID recovery should boost women's workforce participation: Learning from India

Jashodhara Dasgupta

https://www.genderandcovid-19.org/

2020

Journal Article

Health

As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts, it is becoming abundantly clear that future preparations for health resilience need serious rethinking. The model many countries have followed thus far relied upon lowered investments in social protection and public health services, banking heavily on unpaid and underpaid care work by women to fill in the gaps.