investigation is one of the first to explicitly use the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project framework to gain additional … insights on how gender-asset dynamics relate to household livelihood strategies. Our results point to a gender-segregated wage … labor market, where employment opportunities for rural women are limited; education for both men and women can enable the …

did in 2017. The pandemic more than doubled the gender loneliness gap: women were lonelier than men in 2017, and the 2017 … the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic than they …-2020 rise in loneliness was far larger for women. This rise is mirrored in life-satisfaction scores. Men's life satisfaction …

urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post …-pandemic relative to pre-pandemic, while their monthly earnings fell by 89 per cent relative to the baseline mean. In contrast, women … husbands. In contrast, staying employed during the pandemic is associated with worse mental health for women and their …

The central idea of this paper is to explore link between socio-economic positions of women working in unorganized … sector with special reference to beedi rolling. In India Beedi making is an age old industry and one of the largest job … providers for women in the unorganized sector. Women are having inherent advantage in this job in this job of beedi rolling due …