KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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Digital Divide: Tech Access Limited to Male, Urban, Upper Caste & Class, Says Oxfam Report
-PTI/ Newsclick.in Percentage of men owning phones in India is as high as 61% while only 31% of women owned phones in 2021. New Delhi: The percentage of men owning phones is as high as 61% while only 31% of women-owned phones in 2021, according to a new report, which claimed that India's growing inequalities based on caste, religion, gender, class, and geographic location are being worryingly replicated in the digital space. Oxfam...
More »Bridging the gender digital divide to get women into the workforce -Soma Wadhwa
-The Hindu Business Line A recent digital literacy programme in rural Uttar Pradesh shows that eliminating gender disparity in digital literacy can work wonders for the inclusion of women in the workforce Kamla says she turned from helper to co-owner in her husband’s grocery shop the day he handed over his smartphone to her. That day, like every other, he had kept shop till Kamla joined him after completing her morning household...
More »How well did the women workers fare during the pandemic years? The yearly PLFS reports provide some mixed answers.
Do you want a job that does not pay you at all? The answer will be surely 'no' for most of us. And yet, in our previous analysis, it was found that the proportion of 'helpers in household enterprises' among the total number of workers grew over various rounds of annual PLFS (Periodic Labour Force Survey), from 13.3 percent to 15.9 percent between PLFS 2018-19 and PLFS 2019-20, and then...
More »Marital rape, Swachh Bharat, digital divide: Latest NFHS survey reveals startling data -Yashwant Deshmukh and Sutanu Guru
-IndiaToday.in The recent National Family Health Survey that was conducted between 2019 and 2021 busts many myths and also confirms some ugly realities of India. Numbers and data should be the two deities that any self-respecting media professional should respect and revere. Unfortunately, in the din and noise of acrimonious debates that revolve around matters of faith, a treasure trove of fascinating data that showcases an India that is both changing and...
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