For our second episode of FAS Young Scholars Corner, we spoke to S. Niyati, a PhD student at the Indian Statistical Institute (Bangalore) about how the pandemic has impacted working women in rural India.

Reading List:

1) Features of Rural Underemployment in India: Evidence from Nine Villages - Niladri Sekhar Dhar with Navpreet Kaur

2) Women in Agriculture: A Review of the Indian Literature - Nata Duvvury

3) Limited Options: Women Workers in Rural India, Asian Regional Team for Employment Promotion - A. V. Jose

4) Women and Work in Rural India - Madhura Swaminathan, Shruti Nagbhushan, and V. K. Ramachandran

5) Measuring Female Work Participation in Rural India: What do the Primary and Secondary Data Show? - Yoshifumi Usami, with Subhajit Patra and Abhinav Kapoor

6) Work and Empowerment: Women in Agriculture in South India - Smriti Rao

Host: Nihira

Image Credits: FAS PARI Photo Archives

Music Credits: Difference - Ketsa

Disclaimer: The views presented in these episodes are based on research of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the Foundation's research findings.