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How The Pandemic Affected Urban Working Women

Shalini Singh
January 18, 2021
Photos by Aman Kanojiya, PPT
After working for 10 years, Durga Devi lost her job as a domestic help in Delhi during the COVID-19 lockdown
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Photo credit: Aman Kanojiya, Photograpy Promotion Trust
Her children’s education suffered even as the family was forced to cut back on daily meals
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Photo credit: Aman Kanojiya, Photograpy Promotion Trust
Worldwide, 72% of domestic workers, 80% of whom are women, lost jobs because of the pandemic
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Photo credit: Aman Kanojiya, Photograpy Promotion Trust

Our story examines how things changed, or did not, for women in the nation’s capital