The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on domestic migrant workers in India. To address the gendered impact of the pandemic on migrant workers, this brief presents the key findings from a survey of 10,161 women migrant workers from 12 states in India. The analysis reveals that women migrant workers were faced with the double burden of earning a livelihood and unpaid care work at home. In addition, their incomes fell by more than half during the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic levels. Against this backdrop, this brief presents the importance of social protection measures for Indian women migrant workers along the following dimensions: food security, cash assistance, government health insurance and protection against domestic violence.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/socio-economic-impact-covid-19-women-migrant-workers
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/socio economic impact of covid 19.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/undp
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/coronavirus
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/women
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/migration
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/workers
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india