Summary
If we look at the World Economic Forum’s annual report ‘Gender Gap Index 2021’, then India appears 28 places down. India is now ranked 140 out of 156 countries.
The world had stopped during the Corona period. Businesses were at a standstill and no one had an answer as to how the stove would burn the next day. In such a situation, the women of Munshi Premchand’s village Lamhi grew vegetables in their fields and started selling them online. Meena Singh, who lived in Khushalganj village of Basti, showed some similar courage during that period of crisis. He started the work of making slippers along with many women of the village. He not only ran his own household, but also gave employment to all the women around him. These two examples are just hallmarks of the self-reliance of those women, whose spirits did not break even during the Corona period. Today is International Women’s Day and we are telling you how was the condition of women during this time and how did they face the situation?
Statistics show that if anyone suffered the most during the two years of the Corona epidemic, it was women. Not only was his job snatched citing the pandemic, but the burden of household chores also increased a lot on him. According to Mandar Marathe, CEO and co-founder of Cooper Group, 47 percent of women lost their jobs during the Corona period. At the same time, by the end of December 2020, seven percent of women were not able to return to their work compared to men.
If we look at the World Economic Forum’s annual report ‘Gender Gap Index 2021’, then India appears 28 places down. India is now ranked 140 out of 156 countries. According to this report, the contribution of women to the Indian economy and the opportunities available to them has decreased by three percent compared to last year. At the same time, their contribution to the total labor force remained only 22 percent. According to data from the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy, the unemployment rate for women in India is twice that of men (17 percent). At the same time, before the epidemic, the earning of women was Rs 770 per week, which has come down to Rs 180 per week.
Mandar says that women have already been victims of gender inequality at the workplace and taking advantage of this during the Corona period, they were also removed from their jobs. However, women also faced the challenges of this era and started their own business. By increasing savings and reducing expenses, he has made himself self-reliant. However, during work from home, the responsibilities of women in the house increased significantly. Apart from this, they also had to face much more gender discrimination than before.
Personal Finance App MD India Sucheta Mohapatra believes that the efficiency of women was definitely affected badly during the pandemic, but now they have become more self-reliant than before. Sucheta says that we have seen women reaching new heights of success. He overcame all the obstacles in his life in the best way and opened new avenues for himself as well as for others. During the pandemic, he learned to handle his job and business well along with handling the house. When women lost their wages or lost their income due to the pandemic, they managed with utmost care and handled the situation.
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The world had stopped during the Corona period. Businesses were at a standstill and no one had an answer as to how the stove would burn the next day. In such a situation, the women of Munshi Premchand’s village Lamhi grew vegetables in their fields and started selling them online. Meena Singh, who lived in Khushalganj village of Basti, showed some similar courage during that period of crisis. He started the work of making slippers along with many women of the village. He not only ran his own household, but also gave employment to all the women around him. These two examples are just hallmarks of the self-reliance of those women, whose spirits did not break even during the Corona period. Today is International Women’s Day and we are telling you how was the condition of women during this time and how did they face the situation?