Browsing by Author "Bhutia, Winkeyla"

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    Changing Dynamics of Family Roles: Sharing Experiences from Everyday Life
    (University of North Bengal, 2019-03) Bhutia, Winkeyla
    Statistics regarding the participation of the women at work in Sikkim has been encouraging. Factors like education, employment opportunities, reservation in employment, education and political bodies have combined to achieve this. However, the increase in work participation of women also calls for a reorganization of the various roles within the household. Based on my experience as a working woman in an urban setting, this paper attempts to throw light on the changes in the relations within the family in an urban Bhutia household vis-à-vis an earlier situation in a Bhutia family while also exploring the stresses and changes resulting changes in the larger social structure.
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    Everyday Life of the Working Mothers during Covid-19 Pandemic
    (University of North Bengal, 2022-03) Bhutia, Winkeyla
    Following the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lock downs leading to the closure of schools and other forms of institutional support, the workload of the working mothers has been amplified owing to the persistence of traditional gender roles and with the blurring of the private-public sphere division. This has been reflected more in the life of the women in the teaching profession who had to realign themselves to learn new technologies to facilitate remote teaching and learning while simultaneously doing childcare and other domestic chores. The present paper is based on a study of the women teachers in Sikkim and their life during the Covid-19 lockdown. The participants in the study were identified through the snowball sampling. The qualitative data has been collected through in-depth interviews with 16 mothers engaged in the teaching profession in Sikkim.