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Koustav Majumdar
Koustav Majumdar is an Associate - Housing Synergy Group within the Labour, Urban and Housing Rights Division at ActionAid Association, India. His work is mostly focussed on the livelihood and living conditions of migrant and informal sector workers. He has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Presidency University, Kolkata, and an M.A. in Globalisation and Labour from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. During his graduate studies, he completed a semester abroad at Sciences Po, Paris where he studied international development. His areas of interests are informal economy, urban poverty, labour policy, and migration stu
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Would a four-day work week benefit women?
In February 2021, the Indian government stated that it may allow firms the flexibility of having a four-day work week, while retaining the norm of 48 hours of work per week. In this post, Koustav Majumdar assesses the potential impacts of such a policy change on women and their workforce participation – given that women are known to disproportionately bear the burden of domestic work on a day-to-day basis.
