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Economic impact of coronavirus could be painfully long for Indian women

A tiny elite of urban, educated women has benefited from the shift to remote work under lockdown

Work from home opportunities in back offices may now offer more opportunities to qualified women in small towns who aren’t allowed to migrate to bigger cities for work
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The world over, women have trouble re-entering the workforce after losing their jobs or taking time off.

Shruti Rajagopalan | Bloomberg Opinion
Amid the Covid-19 crisis, three out of four Indians are experiencing their first recession. As might be expected, women are bearing the brunt of the pain — and the consequences could be long-lasting.

A tiny elite of urban, educated women has benefited from the shift to remote work under lockdown: A recent study released by LinkedIn, based on internal data for India, found women’s participation in the labor force actually increased by 7% between April and July. But this only applies to jobs in the formal, white-collar, urban economy — a tiny fraction of the labor market. For most Indian

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