ABSTRACT
Many of the vulnerable women, mostly employed in informal economic sectors and with negligible technological capital under lockdown, are denied entrance to the usual forms of mental and physical refuge as supplied by relatives, friends, and health-care system. To contain the outbreak and prevent a health system overload, isolation, school closures, and lockdown measures have been imposed in India, with social and economic consequences and effects on mental and physical health, which are still to be fully evaluated. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, intimate partner violence influences many women every year to leave their homes. The rise in gender-based and domestic violence since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic marks an urgent call to action for the private sector parallel to state to keep women safe at home and safe at work (Sen, N., Singh Roy, A., Bagchi, S.S., 2020).