Aasha Kapur Mehta
Biographic Data
| ID | 4228245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aasha Kapur Mehta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aasha Kapur |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehta |
| SIGNATURE | MEHTA A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Public Administration |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Women and Work in India
Paid and Unpaid Care Work
This article explores the dynamics of women’s paid and unpaid care work in India, highlighting persistent gender disparities. Women bear a disproportionate share of unpaid care work—spending over ten times more hours than men—yet this critical labour remains unaccounted for in national labour statistics and economic output measures like gross domestic product (GDP). Beyond the challenges of measuring unpaid care work, the article examines the siz…
The Struggle to Balance Work and Family Life During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic generated economic contraction across the world. In India, the stringent lockdown led to extreme distress. The unprecedented situation adversely affected the women's efforts to balance professional life with family life because of a disproportionate increase in their domestic work burden and a shift in their workstation to home. Since every job cannot be performed remotely, women employed in healthcare services, banks and me…
Gender Discrimination in Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in India
Undernutrition among children continues to be a serious issue. The study examines the prevalence of the gender gap in the infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices in India based on recent National Family and Health Survey Data, 2015 (NFHS-4). A binary logistic regression model has been used to determine the factors responsible for achieving exclusive breastfeeding, minimum dietary diversity and minimum meal frequency of the index child, th…
Chronic Poverty in Rural India
The distinction between chronic or extended duration poverty and transient poverty is rarely made in the substantial literature on poverty in South Asia. This paper first reviews the limited panel data-based literature on chronic poverty in the region, and then uses panel data that longitudinally track around 3000 households to try and identify the factors that influenced or constrained changes in poverty status between 1970/1971 and 1981/ 1982. …
Chronic Poverty in India
Feminist Theory
Chronic Poverty in India
Feminist Theory
The Struggle to Balance Work and Family Life During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic generated economic contraction across the world. In India, the stringent lockdown led to extreme distress. The unprecedented situation adversely affected the women's efforts to balance professional life with family life because of a disproportionate increase in their domestic work burden and a shift in their workstation to home. Since every job cannot be performed remotely, women employed in healthcare services, banks and me…
Feminist Theory
Chronic Poverty in India
Chronic Poverty in Rural India
The distinction between chronic or extended duration poverty and transient poverty is rarely made in the substantial literature on poverty in South Asia. This paper first reviews the limited panel data-based literature on chronic poverty in the region, and then uses panel data that longitudinally track around 3000 households to try and identify the factors that influenced or constrained changes in poverty status between 1970/1971 and 1981/ 1982. …
Gender Discrimination in Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in India
Undernutrition among children continues to be a serious issue. The study examines the prevalence of the gender gap in the infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices in India based on recent National Family and Health Survey Data, 2015 (NFHS-4). A binary logistic regression model has been used to determine the factors responsible for achieving exclusive breastfeeding, minimum dietary diversity and minimum meal frequency of the index child, th…
The Struggle to Balance Work and Family Life During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic generated economic contraction across the world. In India, the stringent lockdown led to extreme distress. The unprecedented situation adversely affected the women's efforts to balance professional life with family life because of a disproportionate increase in their domestic work burden and a shift in their workstation to home. Since every job cannot be performed remotely, women employed in healthcare services, banks and me…
Paid and Unpaid Care Work
This article explores the dynamics of women’s paid and unpaid care work in India, highlighting persistent gender disparities. Women bear a disproportionate share of unpaid care work—spending over ten times more hours than men—yet this critical labour remains unaccounted for in national labour statistics and economic output measures like gross domestic product (GDP). Beyond the challenges of measuring unpaid care work, the article examines the siz…
Women and Work in India
Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works) · Chronic poverty (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)