Gendered inequalities in paid and unpaid work of women in India /
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| Imprint: | Singapore : Springer, [2022] ©2022 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource ( xx, 277 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Women -- Employment -- India. Unpaid labor -- India. Sex discrimination against women -- India. Sexual division of labor -- India. Equality -- India. Travail non rémunéré -- Inde. Discrimination à l'égard des femmes -- Inde. Equality. Sex discrimination against women. Sexual division of labor. Unpaid labor. Women -- Employment. India. |
| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12776491 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Macroeconomy and women's work. Macroeconomic policies, neo-liberal economic globalisation and women in the workforce
- Women's work : worker's agency and dignity of labour under lens
- Where do migrant women work? Glimpses of paid and unpaid work among women migrant workers in informal sector in India
- Part II. Women in the urban economy and regional diversity. Women's paid work as a bubble of empowerment : a case study of a social enterprise working with women artisans
- Decoding professional women : an analysis of social structure and organizational role stress
- Gender, labour, and the social reproduction of motherhood : a study of commercial surrogacy in Mumbai
- The travails of women street entrepreneurs in Aizawl, Mizoram
- Negotiating rights for street vendors : the importance of incorporating a gender perspective
- Begging or caste-based urban occupations?
- Making visible the invisible : women artists and herstory
- Breaking boundaries- Women in non-traditional livelihoods as professional drivers
- Part III. Women in agriculture and allied occupations. Women's participation in livestock raising- evidence from NSSO employment and unemployment surveys 1993-94 to 2011-12
- Gender and livelihood in post cocoon activity : understanding patriarchal legitimisation of women's work in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh
- Precarity among women workforce in the handloom sector at Sualkuchi, Assam
- Women's labour, self-help groups and microfinance in a neo-liberal world : an interrogation of the role of self-help groups in the rehabilitation of former Devadasis in Belgaum District in Kranataka
- Economic crises and plantation labour : changing contours of women's work in the ten sector.