under the “Self-reliant India Mission” specifically targeting unregistered informal workers such as street vendors …, construction workers and domestic workers. However, home-based workers, a significant category within India’s most vulnerable …

As part of ISST's research initiative to understand the immediate impact of COVID-19 imposed lockdown on women workers … in the informal sector, this study specifically focuses on the plight of women waste workers and segregators residing in … workers. The study aims to highlight the impact of the lockdown on the paid and unpaid work of the women waste workers and …

The severity of COVID-19 has led the government of India to impose one of the stringent lockdown and quarantine measure … in the world. India is under a national lockdown since 25 March 2020 in order to maintain ‘social distancing’ to control … inequalities worse for women and girls, causes discrimination to other marginalized groups and those in extreme poverty. The …

The Construction sector share of 9% in the GDP of India. It employs roughly 5.5 crore daily wage labourers. The sector … labour being on the top and unskilled being at the bottom. Women mostly are at the bottom in the hierarchy. A study on … migrant women construction workers in Delhi shows that out of 501 women construction workers interviewed, 99% of them were …

and unpaid care activities of women workers …

Across the world, women are inevitably involved in some kind of productive and/or reproductive activity but much of … security. Furthermore, women working in the informal sector face different structural constraints and women in poor households …