This paper examines some of the explicit as well as not so explicit trends in relation to women’s employment in India … from 1993-94 till 2009-10 and argues that they indicate a grave and continuing crisis in women’s employment under … liberalization led growth. Trends in the distribution of male and female workers by employment status and broad industry for the same …

analysis of the last three rounds of quinqueinial NSSO Employment and Unemployment surveys, 1993-94, 1999-00 and 2004-05. The …, reflected that new opportunities for women are opening up. The paper analyses women’s employment through a disaggregate … into a downward spiral resulting in a gender based inequality in employment. The sectoral distribution shows women mainly …