Overview
- Addresses issues including migrant work, mental health, economic participation, online education and trans rights
- Situates India in the global context of economic, social and political consequences of the pandemic on gender inequality
- Includes contributions from varied and diverse voices across India
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited volume critically reflects on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect women in India. Drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative research, contributors analyze the implications of the pandemic on the informal sector, migrant women workers, women in the health care sector, women’s economic engagement, the experiences of elderly women, mental health care, higher education, and more. Chapters also consider what gender-responsive policies are needed to ensure women’s equal rights, representation, and participation in society during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This timely and relevant volume situates India within the larger global context of conversations around economic, social and political consequences of the pandemic upon gender inequalities
This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and policy makers in the fields of Sociology, Gender Studies, and Public and Social Policy.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Irene George is an adjunct faculty at the Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies, UAE. and coeditor of the Handbook of Research on Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment. She presents and publishes widely on gender issues.
Moly Kuruvilla is the Founding Director and Professor at Department of Women’s Studies, University of Calicut, Kerala, India and advisor to the Asian-African Association for Women, Gender and Sexuality (AAAWGS). She is also coeditor of the Handbook of Research on Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment (IGI Global, California).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gendered Experiences of COVID-19 in India
Editors: Irene George, Moly Kuruvilla
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85335-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85334-1Published: 25 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85337-2Published: 26 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85335-8Published: 24 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 370
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender Studies, Sociology of Work, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development, Comparative Social Policy