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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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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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Review of Ela R Bhat's 'We are Poor, But So Many Oxford University Press, 2006.
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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 …
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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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aimed at improving labor market outcomes of women residing in low-income households in a developing country. [IGC working …
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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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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...
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Al Jazeera Centre for Studies recently conducted an opinion poll, surveying 8,045 young men and women from Tunisia …
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The focus of this study is to see how equitable the access and utilisation of health services are among married women … of health care among married women beginning in the urban areas and more recently spreading to rural areas. Among the … level of women improves utilisation of maternal health care services. The inequity pattern disfavouring the poor and the …
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