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dc.contributor.authorBabbar, Karan
dc.contributor.authorRustagi, Niharika
dc.contributor.authorDev, Pritha
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-02T12:42:50Z
dc.date.available2022-08-02T12:42:50Z
dc.date.issued2022-07-26
dc.identifier.citationBabbar, K., Rustagi, N., & Dev, P. (2022). How COVID‐19 lockdown has impacted the sanitary pads distribution among adolescent girls and women in India. Journal of Social Issues.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1540-4560
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11718/25765
dc.description.abstractThis paper empirically explores the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying lockdown on adolescent girls’ and women's access to sanitary pads in India. We have used the National Health Mission's Health Management Information System (NHM-HMIS) data for the study, which provides data on pads' distribution on a district level. The empirical strategy used in the study exploits the variation of districts into red, orange, and green zones as announced by the Indian Government. To understand how lockdown severity impacts access to sanitary pads, we used a difference-in-difference (DID) empirical strategy to study sanitary pads' access in red and orange zones compared to green zones. We find clear evidence of the impact of lockdown intensity on the provision of sanitary pads, with districts with the strictest lockdown restrictions suffering the most. Our study highlights how sanitary pads distribution was overlooked during the pandemic, leaving girls and women vulnerable to managing their menstrual needs. Thus, there is a requirement for strong policy to focus on the need to keep sanitary pads as part of the essential goods to ensure the needs of the girls and women are met even in the midst of a pandemic, central to an inclusive response.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSociety for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Social Issuesen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19 impactsen_US
dc.subjectSanitary napkinsen_US
dc.subjectLockdown and sanitary padsen_US
dc.subjectMenstrual needs and pandemicen_US
dc.subjectAdolescent girlsen_US
dc.titleHow COVID-19 lockdown has impacted the sanitary pads distribution among adolescent girls and women in Indiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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