Author : Saraswati Raju
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107133289
""Discusses the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in the cityscape and bringing to surface the contradictions that this assumption offers"--Provided by publisher"--
Author : Mr.Sonali Das
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1498315003
This paper examines the determinants of female labor force participation in India, against the backdrop of India having one of the lowest participation rates for women among peer countries. Using extensive Indian household survey data, we model the labor force participation choices of women, conditional on demographic characteristics and education, as well as looking at the influence of state-level labor market flexibility and other state policies. Our main finding is that a number of policy initiatives can help boost female economic participation in the states of India, including increased labor market flexibility, investment in infrastructure, and enhanced social spending.
Author : Sukti Dasgupta
Publisher : Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2016-10-17
Category :
ISBN : 9789353880989
This book examines the drivers of, and barriers to, participation of women in the Asian labour market for its socio-economic development and structural transformation. Based on original comparative research and extensive fieldwork, Transformation of Women at Work in Asia highlights the commonalities as well as the diverse nature of challenges that women across Asia face in gaining access to more and better jobs. Findings show that women across the continent have contributed significantly to its spectacular growth story; yet, social norms and economic factors limit their levels of participation. The book calls for a comprehensive approach to improve opportunities for women's participation in the labour market as well as for the freedom to engage in paid employment. This will, in turn, contribute to a more inclusive growth process. It addresses important challenges faced by women workers and provides policy options for governments to promote decent work opportunities for women across social strata.
Author : Samita Sen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 1999-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521453631
Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. Dr Sen demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labour, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The book provides insight into the lives of poor urban women who were often perceived as prostitutes or social pariahs. Even trade unions refused to address their problems and they remained on the margins of organized political protest. The study will make a signficant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2019-12-24
Category :
ISBN : 9264823514
India has been a growth champion in recent years and has succeeded in taming inflation, the current account deficit and non-performing loans. India's participation in the global economy has risen, with outstanding performances in some services, while the largest diaspora in the world is an asset in developing new markets. India has also lifted many millions of people out of poverty and has made access to housing for all a priority. Ambitious structural reforms -- including better targeted household support, financial inclusion initiatives, the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, the new approach to federalism and the corporate income tax reform -- have played a key role.
Author : Mary E. John
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Women
ISBN : 9788194925897
Author : Lynn Bennett
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This publication considers the effects of gender on access within the family and beyond. It is based on a more detailed study of women's involvement in key sectors of the Indian economy, the returns they are getting, and the critical constraints they face in increasing their access to, and productivity in, these sectors. Three fundamental observations emerge. First, women are vital productive workers in India's national economy. Second, the poorer the family, the greater its dependence on women's economic productivity. The third observation is that, as a society, India invests far less in women workers than in its working men. India's women also have less access than do men to health services and nutrition. These gender based asymmetrics are contributing factors in India's high child mortality rates and persistently high birth rates.
Author : J. Parpart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,36 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349205141
In the present stage of international capitalist development, women are increasingly being drawn into paid employment by multinational and state investment in the Third World. This volume investigates the interrelations between women's participation in the urban wage economy and their productive and reproductive roles in the household and family. It brings together a selection of important recent research on all major regions of the developing world by leading scholars in this emerging field. It argues that the household itself is an important determinant of the character and timing of women's labour force participation, and it assesses the extent to which family patterns can be expected to change as women increasingly work outside the home.
Author : Nirmala Banerjee
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 1991-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
A study of the regional differences in patterns of women's employment, this book provides an account of the sexual division of labour in India, the position of capitalist industry, the attitude of trade unions and male co-workers towards women and earnings discrepancies.
Author : Usha Sharma
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Women
ISBN : 9788183240772
Female labour has been an important segment of the workforce of India. With the changing socio-economic scenario, women's productive roles have assumed new dimensions. The observance of the International Women's Year in the last quarter of the 20th century, was a historic landmark in the calendar of women's progress. Frankly speaking, it was in recognition of crucial importance and need that women's participation has always been necessary for the success of social and economic development. Over the years, the main objective of the policies of the Government of India with regard to female labour has been to remove the handicaps under which they work, to strengthen their bargaining capacity, to improve their wages and working conditions, to augment their skills and to open up better employment facilities for them.
