Monsoon rains can cause enormous damage. Heavy rains and landslides in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have recently destroyed properties, crops, infrastructure and 41 lives. Extreme floods are becoming more frequent, alongside global warming. This threatens food security, development and also gender equality.
This is a great paper. But I wish the table on women's economic outcomes also compared it to men's economic outcomes. The floods were financially devastating for the entire region, so were women's economic outcomes relatively worse than men's as a result? Or was everyone affected mostly equally?
You are wise, and I think impoverishment would explain the lack of bank account or phone. But other aspects seem more about patriarchal control. Bihar's female labour force participation is 6%, I think that's largely because families preserve honour by cloistering women.
This is a great paper. But I wish the table on women's economic outcomes also compared it to men's economic outcomes. The floods were financially devastating for the entire region, so were women's economic outcomes relatively worse than men's as a result? Or was everyone affected mostly equally?
You are wise, and I think impoverishment would explain the lack of bank account or phone. But other aspects seem more about patriarchal control. Bihar's female labour force participation is 6%, I think that's largely because families preserve honour by cloistering women.
I agree, I just think that additional table or columns in that table would have made the case stronger in that instance.
Sure, btw, in my latest substack I do highlight the ways in which young men are constrained by elders :-)