Gender Inequality in Times of COVID-19
Channel: Horasis Org
Date: 23/06/2020

Women and girls are still constrained by inequalities and by differences in power, privilege and opportunity – in India and elsewhere. And the lock down triggered by COVID-19 Is taking a disproportionate toll on women in the labor market. How can their economic, social and mental well-being be protected? Post-Covid how will women’s rights to gender equality be guaranteed?


• Ganesh M.P., Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
• Shweta Shalini, Executive Director, Maharashtra Village Social Transformation Foundation, India
• Alok Vajpeyi, Director, Population Foundation of India, India
• Devi Vijay, Professor, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
• Susannah Wellford, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Running Start, USA
Chaired by
• Babita Bhatt, Professor, Australian National University, Australia