Using a mixed-method approach of telephonic surveys and in-depth interviews with key informants and women workers, this study aims to assess the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown has had on women waste workers and map the way their circumstances changed once the...

In September 2018, Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), as part of its broad objective of understanding and highlighting barriers to women’s economic empowerment, organized a two-day national workshop on ‘Women and their childcare needs’. The aim of this workshop was to collate...

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 bastis located in south west district of Delhi. The data...