, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points … men and women in April, to recover in August, but not to the pre-pandemic levels. The paper also examines available income …

women. However, conditional on being employed pre-lockdown, women were roughly 20 percentage points less likely to be … employed than men who were employed pre-lockdown. India has amongst the most unequal gender division of household work globally … decreased for both men and women, but relatively more for women. …