, leading to reduced labour supply by the elderly, allowing them to provide greater childcare support. The increase in women …'s labour force participation is mostly in flexible employment, e.g. self-employment and agricultural and non-agricultural wage … employment, and is particularly evident for poorer households. …

young children is an increasingly important issue in women's employment decisions, in a context where formal childcare is … transitions, urban women's employment has refused to budge, never crossing the 25 percent mark. This paper fills a critical gap in … policy research on women's employment in India. The discussion is situated in the normative construction of motherhood and …

(employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on … the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work through the lockdown and recovery phases. The first month of the national lockdown …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …

labour force surveys that contain information on sectoral employment and earnings. We find that sectors of comparative … same time, India has one of the widest gender wage gaps in the world and women are less likely to be employed in the formal … in domestic markets, and how it affects relative wages and formal employment between men and women. Using the Revealed …