Impact of COVID-19 National Lockdown on Women Informal Workers in Delhi

Abstract

Across the world, women are inevitably involved in some kind of productive and/or reproductive activity but much of their work is invisible and they are largely employed in low skilled, low paid informal sectors with little or no social security. Furthermore, women working in the informal sector face different structural constraints and women in poor households are more likely to work in the informal sector and they are often to be found in the more vulnerable categories of work, for instance as domestic workers or self-employed home-based workers

Keywords: Informal Workers, Women Workers, Vulnerability of Workers, Social Security of Informal Workers

JEL Classification: J68, J7