Professor Mridul Eapen speaks about the historical and political context in Kerala that informed the state’s response to #COVID19. Eapen then elaborates on how Kerala ensured that the adverse impacts on women in terms of loss of livelihoods, wages and increase in workloads were addressed.
Professor Eapen is a Member of the Kerala State Planning Board and Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies.
This video is excerpted from the webinar ‘ Kerala’s COVID-19 Response: Integrating Labour, Gender and Decentralization’, broadcast on 29 May 2020, organised by ActionAid, Focus on the Global South, Newsclick and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-South Asia. The resource persons included K T Suresh, Benny Kuruvilla, Professor Mridul Eapen and Sarada Murleedharan (IAS).
