Tag Search: “gender”
Short-term illness and intra-household labour substitution
For poor, agricultural households, health shocks strain limited resources on medical expenses, and result in loss of potential productive work-days. Based on data from rural India, this article shows ...
- Abhishek Dureja Digvijay S. Negi
- 27 August, 2021
- Articles
Countering violence against women with awareness creation and self-defence training
The 2019 National Crime Records Bureau report shows a 7.3% increase, compared to 2018, in violence against women, with one in three women being subject to physical, emotional, or sexual violence. In t...
- Chitwan Lalji Debayan Pakrashi Sarani Saha Soubhagya Sahoo
- 20 August, 2021
- Perspectives
Challenges faced by community health workers in Covid-19 containment efforts
Although community health workers have been the backbone of the fight against Covid-19 in India, there has not been sufficient focus on their well-being and working conditions. Based on a survey in th...
- Somya Bhatia Stutilina Pal Devanik Saha
- 11 August, 2021
- Notes from the Field
She wins: Electing women in ethnically divided societies
The Indian Constitution reserves a minimum of 33% of village council head positions for women, and Bihar is among the nine states that have opted for 50% reservation. This note investigates how gender...
- Arindam Banerjee Sayan Banerjee Charles R. Hankla Kunal Singh Anjali Thomas
- 22 July, 2021
- Notes from the Field
Gendering technological change: Evidence from agricultural mechanisation
Rising mechanisation in Indian agriculture has been accompanied by reduction in farm employment in rural areas, particularly for women. This article shows that the observed 32 percentage point increas...
- Farzana Afridi Monisankar Bishnu Kanika Mahajan
- 14 July, 2021
- Articles
How has the Covid-19 crisis affected the urban poor? Findings from a phone survey - III
While the devastating impact of the second Covid-19 on public health in India is well-known, there is relatively little evidence on its economic and psychological dimensions. Based on surveys in indus...
- Farzana Afridi Amrita Dhillon Sanchari Roy
- 02 July, 2021
- Notes from the Field
Evolution of dowry in rural India: Evidence from 1960-2008
Despite being illegal since 1961, dowry continues to be a widespread phenomenon in rural India. In the first of a two-part series, this article tracks the evolution of dowry during 1960-2008 across st...
- S Anukriti Sungoh Kwon Nishith Prakash
- 01 July, 2021
- Articles
How dowry influences household decisions in rural India
It is widely believed that Indian parents start saving for dowry as soon as a daughter is born. In the second of a two-part series on dowry in rural India, this article examines how dowry influences h...
- S Anukriti Sungoh Kwon Nishith Prakash
- 01 July, 2021
- Articles
India’s ‘missing girls’: Women’s education and declining child sex-ratios
Although women’s education has been proposed as a solution to the persistent issue of ‘missing girls’ in India, studies have reached contradictory conclusions on the impact of female education on chil...
- Pradeep Chhibber Francesca R. Jensenius Susan L Ostermann
- 30 June, 2021
- Articles
Lineage norms and women’s political participation
While reservation for local political representation of women has made major headway, this has not addressed the structural problems that prevent the full incorporation of women into politics. Based ...
- Rachel Brulé Nikhar Gaikwad
- 23 June, 2021
- Articles
Saas, bahu, and ASHA: Information diffusion in rural Bihar
India has made significant progress in improving maternal and child health outcomes, and the contribution of ASHAs – female community health workers – in promoting healthcare-seeking behaviour is wide...
- Mousumi Dutta Saswata Ghosh Zakir Husain
- 16 June, 2021
- Notes from the Field
Gender pay gap in India’s health workforce
Despite constituting almost half of the qualified health workforce in India, female health workers face a visible gender pay gap and lack of conducive work conditions. In this post Arushi Pandey exami...
- Arushi Pandey
- 09 June, 2021
- Perspectives