“Consider it a preview” most researchers opine as they highlight how the lockdown has impacted women employment and reversed gains made in recent years. A working paper from Azim Premji University titled “Down and Out? The Gendered Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on India’s Labour Market” highlights that women in India are 7 times more likely to lose work during the national lockdown and 11 times more likely to not return to work after a job loss. CMIE data, which perhaps is the best indicator to determine job losses, shows a persistent decline in the employment rate for urban women. Before the start of the pandemic, 7.5 per cent of women in urban areas were employed. The number fell to 5 per cent in April and has barely recovered since. Data from February 2021 shows an employment rate of 5.4 per cent.
Guide to choose the right B-school for your future
Guide to choose the right B-school for your future
Here are some initial steps you need to focus on while choosing the right B-school for your future.
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UPDATED: April 1, 2021 15:54 IST
“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you” - John C. Maxwell
Rightly pointed out in the quote above that the choices we make lead to paving our way towards our future. And making choices is not a handful of work when it comes to academic and professional ones. On ascertaining the destination to be MBA, the path to find the right B-school is not a cakewalk; there are mountains of suggestions and valleys of analysis to be done as one strides through. It is like choosing the right product in the market, which meets your needs and is the best one amongst the options that you have.
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