Since the 1990s, India has seen robust economic growth, rising wages, steady fertility decline, increased urbanization … transitions, urban women's employment has refused to budge, never crossing the 25 percent mark. This paper fills a critical gap in … policy research on women's employment in India. The discussion is situated in the normative construction of motherhood and …

This report aims at quantifying the magnitude of gender-based disparities that women face in the organized sector of …

This paper examines certain aspects of employment among women workers in hired labour households, drawing on two …, work participation rates among women were high. Secondly, a woman was able to gain employment in 1999, on average, for only … available to women Fourthly, while the real wage rate for women at cash-paid, daily-rated crop operations rose significantly …