Covid-19 likely to keep Indian women unemployed for years
Covid-19 likely to keep Indian women unemployed for years Most employed women in India are in low-skilled work, such as farm and factory labour and domestic help, sectors that have been hit hard by the pandemic. Migrant women workers, who have left for their villages with families after job losses, are unlikely to come back (Source: Reuters) Reuters Updated Aug 03, 2021, 10:55 AM IST Savitri Devi has been searching for work since she lost her job at a garment factory in New Delhi, along with half her co-workers, when sales plummeted at the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year. T...