Vol. 9, Issue 1, Part E (2023)

Abstract
The economic empowerment of women viz.-a-viz. their social power to determine their independent futuristic life has been recessed by COVID-19 pandemic to a large extent. The economic repercussions due to COVID-19 pandemic have a retrogressive effect on gender equality, which was uneven even before the pandemic. It has a put a symbolic effect on women’s social life. Therefore, COVID-19 pandemic has a double impact on women’s life, socially and economically. The first one, women’s being housewives have first to look after their families and at the same time they act as a role of mother to nourish their children as they seem necessary. The paper reveals how women had been impacted by COVID-19 pandemic and what measures need to be taken to safeguard their interest, livelihood, self-dependency and how to make them self-reliant and self-sufficient.