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Social Distancing and Sex Workers in India

Vol. 55, Issue No. 31, 01 Aug, 2020
Priyanka Tripathi, Chhandita Das

The deplorable condition of sex workers in India amidst the COVID-19 lockdown is discussed. Prostitution, now called sex work, has been a historical reality with cultural connotations. However, a significant amount of shame and stigma is attached to the profession wherein it is not even seen as work. Social distancing and the lockdown have left sex workers across the country in poverty and hunger. There is a need to address the issues of this section of the society from a human rights’ perspective.

Locked in: What the COVID-19 Pandemic Spells for Survivors of Domestic Violence

Vol. 55, Issue No. 32-33, 08 Aug, 2020
The authors reflect on how COVID-19 has affected the issue of domestic violence against women in Kerala, and argue that it is imperative to include domestic violence-related services as part of the gamut of “essential services” to mitigate the adverse effects of the pandemic and its responses.

Locked Out at the Margins

Vol. 55, Issue No. 30, 25 Jul, 2020

The pandemic and lockdown have been particularly hard on those at society’s margins.

Domesticity and Its Substitute

Vol. 55, Issue No. 26-27, 27 Jun, 2020
Maya John

During the lockdown, the heightened burden of domestic work has been shouldered by women. This article analyses the class dimension involved in domestic work, namely the devolving of the bulk of such work by upper-class women onto domestic workers. The persistent vulnerability of domestic workers during the lockdown and its later phase is examined. The undervaluation and feminisation of paid domestic work has reinforced the gendered image of housework. In the situation of lockdown, wherein paid domestic “help” was unavailable, upper-class women were easily pushed back into gendered domesticity, proving the inadequacy of paid domestic services as a solution to mundane, back-breaking household work. The necessity of transforming the private nature of domestic work, which is more in the direct interest of workers than compared to their richer counterparts, is also further explored.

Stay Home, Stay Safe: Interrogating Violence in the Domestic Sphere

Vol. 55, Issue No. 25, 20 Jun, 2020
Though India was quick to declare the pandemic-induced lockdown, how accommodative was it of the violent and gendered realities of the country?

Life During an Infodemic: A Photo Essay

Vol. 55, Issue No. 24, 13 Jun, 2020

Locked in a Crisis

Vol. 55, Issue No. 23, 06 Jun, 2020
Seema Kulkarni

​This article is based on the documentation of the issues faced by women farmers across 14 districts of the Vidarbha and Marathwada regions of Maharashtra. More than ever, the present pandemic has exposed the critical weakness of public systems, since consistent expenditure cuts in the social sector have led to poor infrastructure in public health, the public distribution system, water and sanitation, and shelter homes for violence survivors, among various other facilities. This, along with the depletion of scarce natural resources, has added to the burden of women’s unpaid work.

A Gender-responsive Policy and Fiscal Response to the Pandemic

Vol. 55, Issue No. 22, 30 May, 2020
Jashodhara Dasgupta, Sona Mitra

It is important to include women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex+ persons in the monitoring and accountability mechanisms of the government. A policy that is based on gender concerns and a gender-sensitive fiscal response to the ongoing health crisis as well as the period after that is the need of the hour.

What Does Work-From-Home Mean for Women?

Vol. 55, Issue No. 21, 23 May, 2020
There has been near-universal adoption of work-from-home in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Does this shift have similar implications for men and women? What does work-from-home mean for different categories of women, and what are the implications of this shift in terms of class, nature of work, location of work, and degrees of informality?

MTP during Covid-19

Vol. 55, Issue No. 19, 09 May, 2020
Mohan Rao, Laxmi Murthy, Imrana Qadeer, Urvashi Butalia, Nivedita Menon, Ayesha Kidwai and 72 others

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Gendering the COVID-19 Pandemic

Vol. 55, Issue No. 17, 25 Apr, 2020
Madhuri Dixit, Dilip Chavan

The COVID-19 crisis has affected Indian women differently. Due to the lack of autonomy and gender insensitive nature of the state’s response to the corona crisis, women are perceived as second class citizens. While the lockdown is not qualitatively a new experience for the women, even in critical times as it does not change boundaries or the nature of the public and the private spheres for them. Rather, it overburdens them, bereaves them of agency, and compromises their safety.

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