Child Marriages The society will pay a heavy price if the pandemic pushes more women out of the work force, families deeper into debt and poverty and more girls drop out of school triggering possibly more child marriages, according to Totapally.
Here are some of the other findings of the study, which surveyed about 15,000 women and 2,300 men from low-income households in 10 Indian states: The report suggested “enlistment drives" in government’s flagship rural job guarantee program targeted specifically at women and increase “total person-days offered" under it.
Bundling menstrual pads with government’s free food distribution program will boost access and usage, it said as part of policy prescriptions.