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XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018), Jul 19, 2018
There are clusters of evidence of gender-based violence (GBV) have been happening across the worl... more There are clusters of evidence of gender-based violence (GBV) have been happening across the world for more than a year or so due to the effects of restricted movement of people due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It turns out that women specially Health Care Workers (HCWs) per se are being victimised owing to ‘paradoxical effects’ on account of intermittent lockdown culminated into encountering Intimate Partner violence (IPV). In this article, the authors elucidate a comprehensive picture of both GBV and IPV of countries irrespective of Global North and South through a medical sociological analysis of woman HCWs and other innocents women in the household domain by evidenced based interpreting the publication history, retrieved from the PUBMED, and Google search engine between 1930 and early 2021, covering a large number of developed and developing countries. The article also critically analyses the pattern of violence-specific digitised rescue system including building temporary shelters for rescued victims with the support of the respective government agents and NGOs. This present comprehensive picture of both GBV and IPV in workstation and household level can assist restructuring the fruitful dialogue amongst the policy makers around the world to re-programme the gender norms for the benefit of women.
Covid-19 Riddle Exacerbating Gender (in) Equalities, 2021
There are clusters of evidence of gender-based violence (GBV) have been happening across the worl... more There are clusters of evidence of gender-based violence (GBV) have been happening across
the world for more than a year or so due to the effects of restricted movement of people due
to the Covid-19 pandemic. It turns out that women specially Health Care Workers (HCWs)
per se are being victimised owing to ‘paradoxical effects’ on account of intermittent lockdown
culminated into encountering Intimate Partner violence (IPV). In this article, the authors
elucidate a comprehensive picture of both GBV and IPV of countries irrespective of Global
North and South through a medical sociological analysis of woman HCWs and other
innocents women in the household domain by evidenced based interpreting the publication
history, retrieved from the PUBMED, and Google search engine between 1930 and early
2021, covering a large number of developed and developing countries. The article also critically
analyses the pattern of violence-specific digitised rescue system including building temporary
shelters for rescued victims with the support of the respective government agents and NGOs.
This present comprehensive picture of both GBV and IPV in workstation and household level
can assist restructuring the fruitful dialogue amongst the policy makers around the world to
re-programme the gender norms for the benefit of women.
International Journal of Social Sciences
Research on Ageing and Social Policy
India is often interpreted as a country which is still influenced by the values of gerontocracy a... more India is often interpreted as a country which is still influenced by the values of gerontocracy as well as joint family households. However modernizing trends are affecting the nooks and corners of every part of the society, and India is no left behind. The present paper seeks to explore the domain of physical and mental well being of the elderly population among the lower income households in the country. The findings of the paper show that in lower income households, nuclear families values are gradually penetrating, which is transforming the elderly- family interactions. It is seen that the elderly population which were previously acknowledged as the head of the household or one of the major decision maker are gradually sidelined or excluded from the household affairs. Awareness of being excluded is often a primary reason behind the degrading physical and mental well being of the elderly populace. They are often treated as an unwanted liability, which will be relieved only with...
XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018), Jul 19, 2018
There are clusters of evidence of gender-based violence (GBV) have been happening across the worl... more There are clusters of evidence of gender-based violence (GBV) have been happening across the world for more than a year or so due to the effects of restricted movement of people due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It turns out that women specially Health Care Workers (HCWs) per se are being victimised owing to ‘paradoxical effects’ on account of intermittent lockdown culminated into encountering Intimate Partner violence (IPV). In this article, the authors elucidate a comprehensive picture of both GBV and IPV of countries irrespective of Global North and South through a medical sociological analysis of woman HCWs and other innocents women in the household domain by evidenced based interpreting the publication history, retrieved from the PUBMED, and Google search engine between 1930 and early 2021, covering a large number of developed and developing countries. The article also critically analyses the pattern of violence-specific digitised rescue system including building temporary shelters for rescued victims with the support of the respective government agents and NGOs. This present comprehensive picture of both GBV and IPV in workstation and household level can assist restructuring the fruitful dialogue amongst the policy makers around the world to re-programme the gender norms for the benefit of women.
Covid-19 Riddle Exacerbating Gender (in) Equalities, 2021
There are clusters of evidence of gender-based violence (GBV) have been happening across the worl... more There are clusters of evidence of gender-based violence (GBV) have been happening across
the world for more than a year or so due to the effects of restricted movement of people due
to the Covid-19 pandemic. It turns out that women specially Health Care Workers (HCWs)
per se are being victimised owing to ‘paradoxical effects’ on account of intermittent lockdown
culminated into encountering Intimate Partner violence (IPV). In this article, the authors
elucidate a comprehensive picture of both GBV and IPV of countries irrespective of Global
North and South through a medical sociological analysis of woman HCWs and other
innocents women in the household domain by evidenced based interpreting the publication
history, retrieved from the PUBMED, and Google search engine between 1930 and early
2021, covering a large number of developed and developing countries. The article also critically
analyses the pattern of violence-specific digitised rescue system including building temporary
shelters for rescued victims with the support of the respective government agents and NGOs.
This present comprehensive picture of both GBV and IPV in workstation and household level
can assist restructuring the fruitful dialogue amongst the policy makers around the world to
re-programme the gender norms for the benefit of women.
International Journal of Social Sciences
Research on Ageing and Social Policy
India is often interpreted as a country which is still influenced by the values of gerontocracy a... more India is often interpreted as a country which is still influenced by the values of gerontocracy as well as joint family households. However modernizing trends are affecting the nooks and corners of every part of the society, and India is no left behind. The present paper seeks to explore the domain of physical and mental well being of the elderly population among the lower income households in the country. The findings of the paper show that in lower income households, nuclear families values are gradually penetrating, which is transforming the elderly- family interactions. It is seen that the elderly population which were previously acknowledged as the head of the household or one of the major decision maker are gradually sidelined or excluded from the household affairs. Awareness of being excluded is often a primary reason behind the degrading physical and mental well being of the elderly populace. They are often treated as an unwanted liability, which will be relieved only with...