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.
The 44-year-old has tried her luck repeatedly - and unsuccessfully - near her home in Okhla, an industrial hub with thousands of small factories and workshops, where there was previously plenty of unskilled jobs for women.
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