The Impact of the Pandemic on the Female Unorganized Sector Workers: A Study in the Rural Backdrop of West Bengal

Abstract

The materialization and continuation of the pandemic have a big toll on everyone's life. Female workers specifically from the unorganized sector faced diversified financial crises during the pandemic. These households went through multiple changes in terms of expenditure, loan burden, job uncertainty, etc. A selected sample of 149 has been considered to understand the changes that had taken place in terms of health, expenditure, and other associated evolved behavior in lockdown and post-lockdown phase in a selected rural-based area of West Bengal. By applying different statistical tools like regression, f-test, and t-test, various influencing factors for household expenditure along with the changes in savings behavior have been observed in the chapter. A sudden crisis like COVID-19 has made the selected respondents responsive toward vivid positive lifestyle and attitude changes like financial literacy, savings, crisis management, and so on.

Citation

Datta, S. and Sahu, T.N. (2023), "The Impact of the Pandemic on the Female Unorganized Sector Workers: A Study in the Rural Backdrop of West Bengal", Chakraborty, C. and Pal, D. (Ed.) Gender Inequality and its Implications on Education and Health, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 235-245. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-180-620231021