COVID-19: Economic Impact on Indian Women Mishra Smita* Assistant Professor (Economics), Vidyant Hindu P.G. College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India *Email id: ssmita1707@gmail.com
Online Published on 06 December, 2023. Abstract The Economic impact of Covid-19 on Indian women has been profound touching various aspects of their lives. This paper will Explore the key dimensions of this impact, including employment, income and social roles. Covid (Novel Corona Virus-2019) pandemic broke out in the late 2019 in China Wuhan City. WHO declared it pandemic on 11th March 2020 The word pandemic is derived from the Greek word ‘Pandemos’ where in ‘Pan’ means All and ‘Demos’ means ‘people or populations’. It means pandemic is an epidemic which had crossed the international borders and affected almost everyone. The WHO defined Pandemic as- “an epidemic occurring over a wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large numbers of people” (WHO 2001, Data Report). COVID-19 has directly or indirectly affected each and every sphere of life across the world. Millions of people died while billions were infected (WHO 2021, Data report). After analyzing the whole impact of the big pandemic, it is being compared to Spanish Flue (early 20th century) and Black Death in Europe (mid-14 century, India today weekly, May 20, 11 Edition). Emerging evidences reveals that women have experienced greater business closure and job losses than men in numerous countries due to their over presence in informal sectors (Smith and Morgan 2020). According to World Bank Pandemic has disproportionately impact on various society. Many Vulnerable groups as- women, migrant workers, lower skills occupation and informal sectors, daily workers etc (basically GIG Economy) have more adverse impact of COVID-19 pandemic than others. COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest economic shock that the world has to experienced in these decade (WB, 2020). Globally GDP shrink to 5.5 % to 7.5% and it would be more due to continuous spread of COVID-19 pandemic. During the crisis it was observed that women are more prone to infection due to gendered nature of health facilities and the workforce that includes women fighting the disease. Top Keywords WHO, Business services, Labour intensive manufacturing etc, Pandemic, Formal and informal sector. Top |