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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Women out of work: ‘We were moving up the ladder and ab lagta hai kisi ne seedhi chheen li’ -Somya Lakhani

Women out of work: ‘We were moving up the ladder and ab lagta hai kisi ne seedhi chheen li’ -Somya Lakhani

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published Published on Nov 19, 2020   modified Modified on Nov 22, 2020

-The Indian Express

The Covid lockdown has set off sweeping economic distress in cities but its crucial dimension has remained untold: the silent, devastating toll on the working woman in the city suddenly out of work

*A month into the lockdown after she lost her job at an energy policy institute that paid  Rs 24,000 a month, 29-year-old Reshma, a post-graduate in social work, sent her four-year-old daughter to live with her parents. “I can’t afford to take care of my child if I don’t earn anything. I can’t afford a glass of milk a day for her… Sirf ek maa hi yeh dard samajh sakti hai,” she said. Her husband was unemployed for a year, and got a job at a petrol pump earlier this month.

*A 40-year-old private school teacher in south Delhi’s Sangam Vihar lost her Rs 12,000-per-month job in April. “There is a loan of Rs 40,000 to repay. I have borrowed money from 11 people. After five months, I got a job as a bouncer but the salary is poor… I am ashamed of this, my family has never seen such poverty.”

*Priya, 21, was a beautician earning Rs 10,000 per month plus tips in south Delhi’s Moolchand. She lost her job in the lockdown, her father lost his at a dry cleaning store. “We have no savings, just loans… I will take up any job.” Until she gets one, she’s cutting every corner at home. “In rations, CM Arvind Kejriwal is giving chhole so that’s all we eat. We are a middle-class family and instead of moving forward, we are going backwards.”

The Covid lockdown has set off sweeping economic distress in cities but its crucial dimension has remained untold: the silent, devastating toll on the working woman in the city suddenly out of work.

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The Indian Express, 19 November, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/women-out-of-work-we-were-moving-up-the-ladder-and-ab-lagta-hai-kisi-ne-seedhi-chheen-li-7056677/


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