NEW DELHI : With longer work hours and a work from home set-up during the COVID-19 pandemic, a large percentage of working women in India have been negatively impacted in some form or the other due to the work-life balance becoming worse, a survey said.
According to the report, 'Women@Work', on the effects of COVID-19 on the women workforce in the formal sector in India, over 80% of working women in India, who participated in the survey, said they have been negatively impacted in some form or the other during COVID-19 with the work-life balance becoming worse.As per the report, 38.5% of working women surveyed said they were adversely affected by the burden of added housework, childcare and eldercare while 43.7% said that work-life balance.