By Mansee Bal Bhargava Mother India or Bharat Mata is referred metaphorically as a Goddess of the billion plus people of India who is as caring and loving besides strong and powerful, who can guide its children to right path. Today, the children of the Mother India are going through a Tsunami of Covid-19 worsened further with the poor Covid governance.
This is augmented with the ongoing congregations at elections, Kumbh Mela, and the rising shortage of the medication which are failing both prevention of the disease spread and curing of the disease. At the background of this, the Mother India is also pained by the poor governance to the ongoing Farmers Protest for over eight months now and a number of protests in the recent times over the privatization of the railways, banking, insurance, and the exclusionary CAA-NRC.
Pandemic setback for women
DR GABRIELLE JAMELA HOSEIN
THE RECENTLY released Global Gender Gap Report 2021 tracks gaps between women and men in terms of economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.
Globally, the biggest gap is in political empowerment, where the report estimates it will take 145.5 years for women to attain equal numbers with men at parliamentary and ministerial levels. The economic gap is staggering, with the report estimating that it will take 267.6 years for women to have equal participation and opportunity to men across 156 countries.
In this bleak horizon, Caribbean rankings were better than expected. Overall, Barbados ranks 27th, TT 37th, Cuba and Jamaica come in just below at 39th and 40th, and Guyana and the Bahamas rank 53rd and 58th respectively. We are ahead of countries such as Singapore, Australia and Italy.
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MGNREGA workers in Rajasthan, April 13 (Purushottam Diwakar)
Gurgaon-based artist Akanksha Sarkar (name changed on request), 41, has given up taking on freelance projects. The pandemic intensified her domestic work pressures, leaving her with no help to take care of her home and the home-schooling of her eight-year-old, forcing her to let go of her existing clients. She’s part of a growing number of women across the world who have had to give up paid work during the pandemic, further widening the disparity between males and females in the workforce. The World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) Global Gender Gap Report 2021 estimates that the time it will take to close the global gender gap in health, education, politics and economics has increased from 99.5 years to 135.6 years. India, the third-worst performer in South Asia, ahead of only Afghanistan and Pakistan, has much to learn from better-performing countries.
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1 Tough times: A Pakistani economist claims that 80% of Pakistani families are spending roughly 80% of their incomes on food. Reuters
Tilak Devasher
Member, National Security Advisory Board
Earlier this month, while responding to people’s telephone calls, Imran Khan claimed, inter alia, that Pakistan’s major economic indicators were moving in a positive direction and painted a rosy picture of the country. What overshadowed his comments were, of course, the highly misogynist comments blaming women for getting raped. The reality of Pakistan and Imran Khan’s report card so far are, however, quite different as a series of recently released reports indicate.