Gone are the days when women had enjoyed equality of power and rights in the society. The persistence of the … social life in India and had in turn confined woman’s life to the family and that fate had continued for long during the … promise of social, economic and political justice, into de facto reality has been one of India’s major challenges over the …

this paper, we study the relationship between women employment and domestic violence in India. We used a nationally …Domestic violence is recognised as a serious violation of women’s basic rights. Conventional economic models of … domestic violence suggest that higher participation by women in the labour force leads to a decrease in domestic violence. In …

household for 100 days, has different progressive provisions which incentivise higher participation of women in the programme …. Official data suggest that 47 of all MGNREGA workers are women. This paper uses the National Sample Survey for the 68th … employment-unemployment round (2011-12) to examine the performance of states in terms of participation and rationing of women in …

feminisation of workforce. This paper focuses on this changing position of women in the informal manufacturing sector in India over …Women's position in the labour market is quite vulnerable and they face widespread discrimination, especially in the … the 1989-2000 period. The share of women in total employment is declining in the sectors traditionally labeled for women …

This paper assesses the extent to which the increase in women’s human capital, as measured by educational attainment … point out a positive and significant impact of the increase in women’s educational attainment relative to men on output per … advantage of men relative to women regarding educational attainment has weakened over time, and has even reversed in many …

agree with <p> national statistics in that participation has decreased and unemployment <p> increased for both men and women …

agricultural profits and a land shortage have accelerated this diversification. While the past literature has ignored young women … conventional life courses of women in rural Ethiopia as they have more choices in terms of education, marriage, and the types and … location of their economic activities, due to the increasing importance of young women's economic contributions to their …

markets. Matching over two decades of panel data on industrial mines to survey data for half a million women and exploiting … industrial mine induces a structural shift whereby women switch from working in agriculture to services. We also find that the … probability to earn cash income increases and women become less likely to work seasonally once a mine opens nearby. The results …