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      The "invisible" among the marginalised: Do gender and intersectionality matter in the Covid-19 response?

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          The spread of Covid-19 and the lockdown have brought in acute deprivation for rural, marginalised communities with loss of wages, returnee migrants and additional state-imposed barriers to accessing facilities and public provisions. Patriarchal norms amplified in such a crisis along with gender-blind state welfare policies have rendered women in these communities "invisible". This has impacted their access to healthcare, nutrition and social security, and significantly increased their unpaid work burden. Several manifestations of violence, and mental stress have surfaced, diminishing their bare minimum agency and rights and impacting their overall health and wellbeing. This article looks at these gendered implications in the context of rural, tribal and high migrant areas of South Rajasthan. We have adopted an intersectional approach to highlight how intersections of several structures across multiple sites of power: the public, the private space of the home and the woman's intimate space, have reduced them to ultra-vulnerable groups.

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          Journal
          Indian J Med Ethics
          Indian journal of medical ethics
          Forum for Medical Ethics Society
          0975-5691
          0974-8466
          2020
          : V
          : 4
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Officer, Primary Healthcare Initiative (a joint initiative of IIM Udaipur and Basic Healthcare Services), Udaipur, 313 001 INDIA.
          [2 ] Programme Executive, Family Empowerment Programme, Aajeevika Bureau, Udaipur, 313 001, INDIA.
          [3 ] Professor and Chairperson, Centre for Health and Social Sciences, School of Health Systems Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Deonar, Mumbai, 400 088 INDIA.
          Article
          10.20529/IJME.2020.086
          34018955
          d6e27c8c-323f-44ee-a9a3-7c710641c43e
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