data showed that job losses in April in the immediate aftermath of the national lockdown were significant. Employment in April 2020 was just 70% of the average of the preceding fiscal year ending March 2020, Deshpande found.Far more men are in the paid workforce in India than women, and women’s participation in the paid labour force has been in steady decline.
As a result, the absolute number of men who reported having lost unemployment in April 2020 as compared to the average of the preceding year was much larger than the number of women who reported losing their jobs.