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If initial trends indicated by data from the first phase of the survey hold for subsequent phases, many gains made in the recent past with regard to women and children’s health and wellbeing could be reversed, as we
reported on December 13.
More women report having worked
While National Family Health Survey reports a marginal increase in the percentage of women who said they had worked for cash, it does not factor in the effect of the pandemic on India’s already low female labour force participation of 24%, as recorded in the
Employment data released by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy for November 2020
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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India s sex ratio has widened in 8 states: National Family Health Survey also reports high level gender-based violence NFHS is the government’s own data and if the figures are so high pre-pandemic, one shudders to think what it will be like post-pandemic, said Sohini Bhattacharya of Breakthrough India, a women’s rights organisation Namita Bhandare December 14, 2020 20:36:29 IST Representational image.
Gender gains made by India in the recent past are in danger of being reversed, data released by the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) for 2019-20 indicates.
The survey pre-dates the COVID-19 pandemic which has disproportionately impacted women in terms of gender-based violence as well as employment.