, 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 … lower than that for men, compared to the pre-pandemic period. Men spent more time on housework in April 2020, but by August …

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 … housework per day increased post-lockdown. This seems to be driven by increased male unemployment. The time spent with friends …

earnings, and occupational structure among men and women and according to different social groups to establish the extent to … differential in wage income between men and women in farm and non-farm activities. The paper also shows the division of time … between employment and non-employment activities by men and women. The paper uses high-frequency data and applies econometric …