Based on primary data from India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying women's low labour force participation. In … developing countries, women engaged in unpaid economic work in family enterprises are often not counted as workers. Women are … leads to mismeasurement of women's work. Religion and visible markers such as veiling are not significant determinants of …

-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …

partner selection in India. We find that employed women are 14.5% less likely to receive interest from male suitors relative …While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre …

Intimate partner violence is a serious form of unfreedom inflicted on women across the world. How does the incidence of … such violence vary with women's workforce participation - a factor that is supposed to enhance their economic well …-being? Our study examines this relationship using a nationally representative dataset from India. Given vast heterogeneity among …

earnings, and occupational structure among men and women and according to different social groups to establish the extent to … differential in wage income between men and women in farm and non-farm activities. The paper also shows the division of time … between employment and non-employment activities by men and women. The paper uses high-frequency data and applies econometric …

A body of extant literature suggests that improvements in wellbeing and empowerment of women in the process of … traditional social norms and women's status, in particular, the women's attitude towards violence and incidence of spousal … social norms prevailing among the different tribes from the comprehensive ethnographic atlas People of India with household …

The primary goal of this paper is to examine the factors that bear on the greater participation of women in unpaid … activities in India. The study is based on the employment-unemployment survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Office …-cultural factors strongly affect women’s participation in unpaid work as compared to other economic and non-economic factors. It is …

. Employers are less likely to callback mothers relative to women or men without children, but only if they are of patrilineal …