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Working and Living Conditions of Women Domestic Workers: Evidences from Mumbai
Paul, G.D Bino; Dattagupta, Sushanta; R, Venkatesha Murthy - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper, exploring primary data collected from 1510 women domestic workers in Mumbai, evidently brings out that …
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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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State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Executive Summary
Prakash, Padma; IKF, IRIS Knowledge Foundation - eSocialSciences - 2013
The State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills developed and produced by IRIS Knowledge Foundation, Mumbai on a commission from the UN-HABITAT Global Urban Youth Research Network of which it is part, is a first attempt to pull together a data and knowledge base on and...
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Book Review: Women Workers, Unite!
Bhowmik, Sharit - eSocialSciences - 2007
Review of Ela R Bhat's 'We are Poor, But So Many Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Human Cost of Making Bricks
Kant, Nalini - eSocialSciences - 2006
In India, thousands of women, men and children slave away in the brick kilns. Common to almost all brick kilns is the … use of violence, over or implicit. Women and girls, however, are profoundly affected. Many girls and young women are raped … poverty. This report, focusing on the widespread exploitation of brick making families, reviews the situation of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487763
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Review of Rural Non-farm Sector in India: Recent Evidence
Ranjan, Sharad - eSocialSciences - 2007
During the period 1972-73 to 2004-05 in rural India, the total number of workers expanded more in the non-farm sector than the farm sector with the rise in male workers being sharper than that of female workers. This enquir,y primarily based on NSS data, throws up ample evidence of the...
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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - eSocialSciences - 2013
aimed at improving labor market outcomes of women residing in low-income households in a developing country. [IGC working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945207
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Participation in Economy
eSocialSciences; Central Statistical Organization CSO - 2014
This is the 4th Chapter of the report 'Women and Men in India' by CSO. Although women constitute a little less than the …
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The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Low-and-Middle Income Countries
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Hansen, David; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries? A detailed, comparable test score data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked to household demographics shows that the gender gap appears to increase with age. It is shown that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945217
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The Youth of Arab Spring
Al Jazeera . - eSocialSciences - 2013
Al Jazeera Centre for Studies recently conducted an opinion poll, surveying 8,045 young men and women from Tunisia …
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