Demography

(Homepage image) Women take on the majority of work in the care economy, both the informal, unpaid kind and paid jobs in fields like child care, education, and social services. “It might seem like the gender disparity has washed out and, in many areas, we have rebounded to pre-COVID levels,” says Gonalons-Pons. “But the care economy has not yet recovered.”

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An unpaved road in Khandela. Most small towns have poor-quality roads, Thachil says. “They need everything.”

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Adamson Muula (second from left), a professor of public health & epidemiology at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, and students.

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Gwynne Evans-Lomayesva is a first-year doctoral student in demography.