Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as … productivity, increases women's vulnerability to income shocks, and impairs their ability to save for old age. Many developing … countries have introduced social protection programs to protect poor people from social and economic risks, but despite women …

This book explores Indian women's economic contribution through paid and unpaid work in different sectors of the … interlinkages between local, national, regional and global dimensions of women's paid and unpaid work in India. It encompasses a … vast canvas of life worlds of working women in the metropolitan, urban, peri-urban, rural, tribal areas in manufacturing …

characteristics and income sources on women’s timing of receipt of Social Security retirement benefits. Using logistic regression, the … likelihood of early election of benefits was increased by earnings regardless of marital status; and, for married women, by … husband’s age being greater than wife’s, and by other income. For married women, education decreased the likelihood of …