Reflections on the Less Visible and Less Measured
Gender and Covid-19 in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2368301 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bina Agarwal (0000-0002-6026-6877, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 244-255 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2432 • E-ISSN: 1552-3977 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/08912432211001299 |
| OpenAlex | W3118913059 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 9 |
The gender effects of COVID-19 are complex, and extend much beyond the issues of care work and domestic violence that have captured global attention. Some effects have been immediate, such as job losses, food shortages, and enhanced domestic work burdens; others will emerge in time, such as the depletion of savings and assets and pandemic-related widowhood, which would make recovery difficult. I use examples from India to outline the complexity of such outcomes, the limitations of the many telephone surveys conducted during the pandemic, and the importance of anticipating both the immediate and the sequential effects. We can anticipate these effects by drawing on our knowledge of preexisting gender inequalities and people's coping strategies under crises, as well as real-time media alerts. Prior conceptualization can help us design better surveys for capturing both the visible and less visible impact of the pandemic, as well as formulate more effective policies for mitigating the adverse effects. I also highlight the advantages of group-based approaches for protecting women's livelihoods during such crises, and emphasize the need to create a synergy between feminist theory, evidence gathering, and policy formulation
Agriculture · Business · Conceptualization · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic shortage · Economics · Geography · Livelihood · Pandemic · Political science · Public relations · Computer Science · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Medicine · Psychology
Women, Peace, and Security and Increasing Gendered Risk in the Era of Covid-19
Urban Inequality and Covid-19
Blocked by Gender
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future
Covid-19 impact and recovery for women informal workers – a view from 2021
Imperatives of recognising the complexities
Locked out of livelihoods
In this together”? Gender inequality associated with home‐working couples during the first Covid lockdown
Mothering load
Choreographing social reproduction
Potential opportunities and challenging realities
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic
A qualitative examination of microfinance and intimate partner violence in India
Women, pandemics and the Global South
Reorganizations of Gendered Labor During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
From multiple streams to a torrent
Resisting the turn? The Asian Development Bank and the comeback of state capitalism
Drivers of masculinity
Gendered Household Responsibilities in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Recurring crises, resilient workers? Biographical-relational resources in worker livelihoods
Gender and Green Governance
Toward Freedom from Domestic Violence
Can group farms outperform individual family farms? Empirical insights from India
Livelihoods in Covid times
A field of one's own
Bargaining'' and Gender Relations
Social security and the family
Does group farming empower rural women? Lessons from India's experiments
| Citations per year | 4.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |