Covid-19 and its impact on self-employed women

• Main Authors: Cheong, Jia Qi, Jacqueline Liza Fernandez
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (HRMARS) 2022
• Subjects: HD6050-6305 Classes of labor Including women, children, students, middle-aged and older persons, minorities
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33595/1/Covid-19%20and%20its%20impact%20on%20self-employed%20women.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33595/2/Covid-19%20and%20its%20impact%20on%20self-employed%20women%20_ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33595/; https://hrmars.com/papers_submitted/14024/covid-19-and-its-impact-on-self-employed-women.pdf; http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v12-i6/14024

Debates and studies about self–employed women are very important during the Covid-19 pandemic in designing strategies to diminish the negative impact of the crisis on this particular group of workers. The methodology used for this paper consists of a library search and an evaluation of the literature. References are based on online databases. Women face various challenges when they are self–employed and the Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated their problems. This article studies the challenges encountered by self-employed women and discusses some of the initiatives to address the issues faced by them.