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'Bed and Board' in Lieu of Salary: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)
Chakravarty, Deepita; Chakravarty, Ishita - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is, domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. [CESS WP 84].
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Employment Guarantee for Women in India Evidence on Participation and Rationing in the MGNREGA from the National Sample Survey
Narayanan, Sudha; Das, Upasak - eSocialSciences - 2014
employment-unemployment round (2011-12) to examine the performance of states in terms of participation and rationing of women in …The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which guarantees employment of every rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945397
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Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Program in India
Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard; Sharan, M - eSocialSciences - 2013
the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment …
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Development Challenges in Extremist Affected Areas
Commission, Expert Group Planning - eSocialSciences - 2009
Widespread discontent among the people has plagued the Indian polity for sometime now. It has often led to unrest, sometimes of a violent nature. Over the years, statutory enactments and institutional mechanisms for addressing the various aspects of deprivation have been brought into being. But...
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Women’s Work in the Post Reform Period: An Exploration of Macro Data
N, Neetha - eSocialSciences - 2009
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 …
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