Labor market and unpaid works implications of COVID-19 for Bangladeshi women

Issue Date

11-2020

Abstract

Crisis impacts are never gender-neutral, and COVID-19 is no exception. The pandemic has further exacerbated the gender and socioeconomic inequalities, therefore, crucial to undertake a gender impact analysis of COVID-19. This perspective paper highlights women's vulnerability in the labor market and focused on the increasing unpaid workloads in the response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Focusing on various surveys, feminized sectors such as agriculture, garments have been hardest hit by the pandemic. Female workers have been rapidly lost their means to earn income and confined to homes. Beyond lost jobs and reduced working hours, the pandemic has also increased the time poverty of women. While pre-pandemic unpaid work burdens are well established as strong, the study indicates that burdens are escalated after-pandemic. Women balanced intensified unpaid care and domestic works simultaneously or make a tradeoff, without or minimal help from men. Such results suggest a gender-inclusive policy to minimize the effects of the pandemic, placing women at the center of focus.

Source or Periodical Title

Gender, Work and Organization

ISSN

0968-6673

Volume

28

Issue

S2

Page

597-604

Document Type

Article

Physical Description

diagram; graphs; references

Language

English

Subject

labor market, time poverty, unpaid work, women

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12587

Digital Copy

yes

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