{"id":90713,"date":"2020-11-07T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T09:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18371"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:08:46","slug":"pandemic-has-worsened-gender-inequality-in-india-says-oxfam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pandemic-has-worsened-gender-inequality-in-india-says-oxfam\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic has worsened gender inequality in India, says Oxfam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Oxfam has released a report titled worsened gender inequality Report 2020 \u2014 On Women\u2019s Back\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About the report: <\/strong>The report is based on data and responses collected from urban and rural women in New Delhi and Rajasthan in the past year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Covid-19 induced inequality: <\/strong>The onset of the covid-19 pandemic may have worsened gender inequality between men and women in terms of income and time in India given their roles in society as \u201cbreadwinner men&#8221; and \u201ccaregiver women.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unpaid Work: <\/strong>Women and Girls in India put in 3.26 billion hours of unpaid care work each and every day.It is equivalent to the contribution of \u20b919 lakh crore (trillion) a year to the Indian economy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Women\u2019s Contribution to GDP: <\/strong>In India, women\u2019s contribution to the GDP is one of the lowest in the world at 17%.On the Other hand, in China women\u2019s work contributes to 41% of the GDP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommendations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide public amenities and services for women to realize their rights to rest, leisure and equal participation in the labour market.<\/li>\n<li>Offer decent local employment, better working conditions and fair pay for women and men.<\/li>\n<li>Initiate gender sensitization and behaviour-change strategies in schools and colleges, specifically messaging of redistribution of care work.<\/li>\n<li>Run public campaigns on progressive models of masculinity and femininity, based on de-gendered labour within and outside the household.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Oxfam has released a report titled worsened gender inequality Report 2020 \u2014 On Women\u2019s Back\u201d. Facts: About the report: The report is based on data and responses collected from urban and rural women in New Delhi and Rajasthan in the past year. Key Takeaways: Covid-19 induced inequality: The onset of the covid-19 pandemic may&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pandemic-has-worsened-gender-inequality-in-india-says-oxfam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pandemic has worsened gender inequality in India, says Oxfam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1351,1310,1731],"tags":[7949,2178],"class_list":["post-90713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-bill-and-acts","tag-india-inequality-report-2020-on-womens-back","tag-oxfam","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700797695,"cached_date":1704796656},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}