India’s Digital Health Push Is Overworking Its Front-Line Women

India’s Digital Health Push Is Overworking Its Front-Line Women

“The mobile phone has been stuck to my ear since the pandemic,” joked Rohini Pawar, 38, a community health worker from Walhe village in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. After hours of field surveys, Pawar returns home to tend to her 7-year-old son’s schoolwork and finish household chores. But her workday isn’t over. She must sit down with her phone — not to text friends or scroll through Instagram reels — but to update supervisors on her…