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Women harder hit by job losses due to Pandemic

  • March 24, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Women harder hit by job losses due to Pandemic

Subject: Economy

Context: According to the recently released PLFS and CMIE data the women has been hit harder by the pandemic w.r.t participation in workforce.

Concept:

  • From 16.4% in May-August of 2016, the female labour participation rate (employed women as a proportion of all women of working age) fell consistently after the demonetisation shock to stabilise at around 11% between mid-2018 and early 2020, according to estimates of Mumbai-based Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)
  • The pandemic, by most accounts, dealt this a hammer blow, pushing this number to around 9 per cent.
  • Women, according to the CMIE, accounted for 10.7% of the workforce in 2019-20, but they accounted for 13.9% of the job losses in April 2020 — the first month of the lockdown shock. By November 2020, while men recovered most of their lost jobs, women were less fortunate. CMIE estimates that 49% of the total job losses by November 2020 were of women.

Factors for higher impact on women:

  • Textiles and contact service providers employing more women were hardest hit
  • schools were shut down and the family unit was under pressure, many women workers, once they lost their jobs, quickly slid back to their full-time role as home-makers and care-givers
  • lack of transport
  • Retail has been affected, resulting in an impact to sectors such as garment manufacturing which employs women more
economy Women harder hit by job losses due to Pandemic

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