Back to school with PC

prakash chandra prodduturi

Back to School with PC is a show, where we interview a host of guests from across the world about their growing up years, their paths to success and interests outside of work. The episodes on the show would help our audience make informed choices on careers, have a nuanced understanding of the most pressing issues in the world and most importantly listen to very interesting perspectives from accomplished people in their own fields. All of this peppered with a lot of fun and banter. So, do subscribe to us and tune in

Episodes

  1. Ep7: The Everything of Women in the Workforce

    11/09/2020

    Ep7: The Everything of Women in the Workforce

    In the 7th episode of Back to School with PC, we feature Devika Kher, a researcher who has extensively worked on the declining female labor employment in India. In this episode, Devika speaks to us about the history, economics, politics and the everything of women in the workforce.   She shares with us fascinating insights of how the industrial revolution was detrimental to women's fight for equality and how it took a couple of world wars and the washing machine to help make progress.    Devika tweets @DevikaKher and Blogs at http://medium.com/@DevikaKher  Timeline:   1:18 How has society progressed on gender equality in the last century and a half?  4:25 Understanding the role of RBG in forwarding Women's rights  6:20 What are the obstacles hindering a 50% participation of women in the work force?  8:04 Economic case for Higher Women participation for everyone  11:10 Women participation in developing vs developed countries  12:12 Understanding the reasons for decrease in India's Female participation rate in labour?  17:20 How do we solve this problem of decrease in Female participation rate?  22:11 Understanding the dynamics of India's female participation rate through the U shaped curve  26:35 Effect of the Covid Pandemic on Unemployment to both the genders  29:25 Understanding the gender pay gap and the narrative?  31:36 Pink Collar Jobs and the effects of occupational segregation?  36:52 The efficacy of Corporate Diversity 42:40 What makes Devika hopeful?  ...  Happy Listening :)   Shownotes:  RBG Documentary: https://www.netflix.com/in/title/80240086 Hans Rosling: Factfulness: https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Better/dp/1250107814 Hans Rosling: Washing machine: The magic washing machine | Hans Rosling Women and Labor Market Changes in the Global Economy: Growth Helps, Inequalities Hurt and Public Policy Matters: ZafirisTzannatos Chinmay Tumbe: A history of Migration: https://www.amazon.in/India-Moving-Migration-Chinmay-Tumbe/dp/0670089834 Report on Maternity benefit by Teamlease: https://www.teamleasegroup.com/maternity-report Freakonomics: The true story of the gender pay gap: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender-pay-gap-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ Documentary on Female Cab drivers in Mumbai: https://drivingwithselvi.com/ Namita Bhandari: Women in workforce in India Women in Labour Amit Verma: Seen and Unseen podcast with Namita Bhandari: Ep. 132: Women at Work

    45 min

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Back to School with PC is a show, where we interview a host of guests from across the world about their growing up years, their paths to success and interests outside of work. The episodes on the show would help our audience make informed choices on careers, have a nuanced understanding of the most pressing issues in the world and most importantly listen to very interesting perspectives from accomplished people in their own fields. All of this peppered with a lot of fun and banter. So, do subscribe to us and tune in