This episode focuses on the negative and unequal effect of the pandemic on female employment. It features Professor Aliya Hamid Rao of the LSE.
Aliya is the author of: Nothing cute about the ‘shecession’: the bleak prospects for women who lost their jobs in the pandemic on the LSE Covid-19 Blog. This post builds on her book Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment. 2020, University of California Press.
The Covid-19 and Democracy Podcast is an output of the Covid-19 and Democracy Project, which is based within the Department of Politics, International Relations and Human Rights of Kingston University, London.
Project Lead and podcast Presenter and Producer: Pete Finn (p.finn@kingston.ac.uk)
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Original music by Sovereign Heights