Tier 2 and 3 cities will be the post-Covid hubs of gender diverse hiring: Saundarya Rajesh
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India’s women’s labour force participation is at an all-time low of 21%, down from 25%, due to the increase in the number of jobs lost by women. In urban India, only 12 out of every 100 still employed are women, a shocking statistic, down from the already low 18, pointed out Saundarya Rajesh.
It is the Tier II and Tier III cities and towns that need the influence of diversity, said Saundarya.
India is now home to more than 11 million women who have taken a break in career and are seeking re-entry opportunities, with the Covid-19 pandemic adding an estimated 3.2 million women to the pool, Saundarya Rajesh, founder president of Avtar Group, a diversity, equity and inclusion solutions firm, told ET’s Saumya Bhattacharya in an exclusive interview. Edited excerpts:
Although men too lost jobs, the pandemic affected Indian women in the workforce harder
Eight months after the Covid-19 lockdown was imposed, 13% fewer women than a year ago were employed or looking for jobs, compared to 2% fewer men, data shows. Dec 16, 2020 · 01:30 pm The issues particular to migrant women labourers remain largely ignored in policy and programme interventions. | Amit Dave/Reuters
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video, the woman lies dead, her body laid out on the railway platform at Muzaffarpur, Bihar. A toddler, presumably the woman’s, plays by her side, tugging at the sheet that covers her.
For weeks, a grim nation had watched
More than a quarter of the women surveyed in seven states said they had experienced domestic violence, data released in the first phase of the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) indicate. Nine states reported an increase in the number of women who said they had faced sexual violence as children, and eight states reported a decline in their sex ratios. A marginally higher share of women said they had worked in the last year and were paid in cash and not in kind but the numbers could be misleading, experts say. The National Family Health Survey is a nationally representative household survey that covers over 400,000 households, asking questions around marriage, fertility, vaccinations and health status, among others. This edition of the survey pre-dates the COVID-19 pandemic that has seen a disproportionate impact on women in terms of gender-based violence as well as employment.
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