Tag Search: “gender”
Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Do working women enjoy more agency?
Women’s limited work participation in India is not only of economic significance, but also has ramifications for their well-being and societal status. Based on a household survey in four north Indian ...
- Megan Maxwell Milan Vaishnav
- 07 December, 2021
- Articles
Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Why is female labour force participation so low in India?
India’s low female labour force participation is a complex social phenomenon, resulting from – among other things – patriarchal norms, rural-urban transitions, and a mismatch of supply and demand fact...
- Deepaboli Chatterjee Neelanjan Sircar
- 06 December, 2021
- Articles
Introduction to e-Symposium: Urbanisation, gender, and social change in north India
Urbanisation in India is reshaping established social and economic patterns of behaviour, in ways that scholars are yet to fully comprehend. India’s rapid urbanisation invites several pressing questio...
- Devesh Kapur Neelanjan Sircar Milan Vaishnav
- 06 December, 2021
- Symposium
Empowering women through participatory theatre
Twenty-nine percent of women in India report having suffered intimate-partner violence. Based on a field study involving 92 villages in the state of West Bengal, this article shows that community-base...
- Karla Hoff Jyotsna Jalan Sattwik Santra
- 25 November, 2021
- Articles
Inter-gender and intra-gender gaps in land ownership in India
While women’s landownership is recognised as a key indicator of their economic empowerment, there are no detailed estimates of how many and which women own land in India. Analysing longitudinal data f...
- Bina Agarwal Pervesh Anthwal Malvika Mahesh
- 24 November, 2021
- Articles
Do promises work? Assessing long-term benefits of ‘Apni Beti Apna Dhan’ programme
During 1994-1998, the state government of Haryana ran a conditional cash transfer programme to address the issue of child marriage: at the time of a daughter’s birth, parents from marginalised section...
- Shreya Biswas Upasak Das
- 03 November, 2021
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Does access liberalise gender norms around phone use for rural women?
Despite improved connectivity, deep-rooted gender norms continue to shape access to and use of mobile technologies by women in India. This note discusses preliminary findings from a study, which sugge...
- Giorgia Barboni Natalia Rigol Simone Schaner Natalie Theys
- 13 October, 2021
- Notes from the Field
Covid-19 and mental health: Strengthening psychosocial well-being of children
Yasmin Haque, UNICEF Representative in India, outlines the evidence on the severe impact of the pandemic on the mental health of children and adolescents – particularly girls, and the measures being t...
- Yasmin Ali Haque
- 23 September, 2021
- Perspectives
Covid-19 and mental health: Fighting the “infodemic”, one phone call at a time
COVID-19 information communication strategies globally have been dominated by SMS and voice recording based campaigns. The most pervasive Indian government campaign was a pre-recorded message that pla...
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Varun Chati Sadish D Saswati Mishra Anant Nyshadham Nirupama V
- 22 September, 2021
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Covid-19 and mental health: Improving women’s mental well-being via telecounselling
Public health emergencies such as Covid-19 disproportionally cause mental health problems among women due to factors such as their inferior socioeconomic position in the household, greater care respon...
- Firoz Ahmed Asad Islam Debayan Pakrashi Tabassum Rahman Abu Siddique Michael Vlassopoulos
- 21 September, 2021
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Covid-19 and mental health: Large-scale phone survey in six Indian states
The Covid-19 pandemic brought with it the dual crises of public health and the economy, particularly in low-income settings with limited formal safety nets. Based on a large-scale phone survey conduct...
- Natalie Bau Gaurav Khanna Corinne Low Manisha Shah Sreyashi Sharmin Alessandra Voena
- 20 September, 2021
- Perspectives
Is it safe? Threat of sexual violence and women’s decision to work
Despite significant improvements in women's educational attainment and reduced fertility rates, India’s female labour force participation (FLFP) remains among the lowest globally. Using nationally rep...
- Tanika Chakraborty Nafisa Lohawala
- 06 September, 2021
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