Deshpande, Ashwini - In: Feminist Economics 8 (2002) 2, pp. 19-35
Inter-group disparity in India is multifaceted; this paper focuses on gender and caste as two important indicators of … disadvantage. An assessment of the contemporary state of the gender-caste overlap suggests that the economic condition of women … ladder; their relative deprivation is compounded by low levels of autonomy and greater exposure to domestic violence. …
