'My Work Never Ends' : Women Balancing Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work in India - National Report for Women's Economic Empowerment Policy and Programming

The ‘Balancing unpaid care work and paid work: successes, challenges and lessons for women’s economic empowerment programmes and policies’ research project within the Growth and Equal Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was carried out in four countries: India, Nepal, Rwanda and Tanzania. This report presents the findings pertaining to India, where research was carried out in the districts of Udaipur and Dungarpur in the state of Rajasthan, and in Indore and Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh (MP). The overall objective of the research was to contribute to creating knowledge on how women’s economic empowerment (WEE) policy and programming can generate a ‘double boon’ – paid work that empowers women and provides more support for their unpaid care work responsibilities. In India, the two WEE programmes selected for this research were: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and the Self Employed Women’s Association in Madhya Pradesh (SEWA MP), with two sites identified for data collection for each of these programmes