Covid 19 from an Intersectional Gendered Perspective – Looking Beyond the Obvious
Channel: Coady Institute
Date: 2021-04-05

This webinar proposes to delve into the impact of Covid-19 on the gendered relations and look beyond the obvious. It aims to not only delve directly into the loss of jobs and earnings, but also indirectly in terms of food insecurity, depletion of savings and assets, social isolation, and mobility loss (much of it legalised and enforced by state). Further, women who were unpaid workers in homes and family enterprises, face further precarity. The conversation, moreover, aims to look into the labour market transitions, type of work that women have been doing, social protection and change in care work from the standpoint of the poor and excluded women across the globe. Lastly, it aims to look at the women led progressive pathways towards developing more equitable alternatives.

Panelists: 
Prof. Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester
Dr. Flavia Rios, Professor of Sociology, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
Sandeep Chachra, Executive Director, ActionAid India
Lebohang Liepollo Pheko, Senior Research Fellow and Political Economist, Trade Collective
Eileen Alma, Director, International Centre for Women’s Leadership, Coady Institute
Moderator: Sarika Sinha, Feminist Activist, Program Teaching Staff, Coady Institute