Feminist struggles in times of pandemic: lessons from rural India

By Isabelle Guérin, Directrice de recherche à l'IRD-Cessma (Université de Paris), affiliée à l’Institut Français de Pondichéry, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
Govindan Venkatasubramanian, Chercheur en sociologie au département de sciences sociales, Institut français de Pondichéry
Nithya Joseph, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institut français de Pondichéry

The Covid-19 pandemic brought tragedy in India, especially at the outset of the crisis. The situation is far from over, and as elsewhere, women have been heavily affected.

Small traders, home-based workers, informal recyclers and domestic workers have lost their jobs on a huge…

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