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 …

relationship between women's autonomy, the perpetration of intimate partner violence in households, women's paid work status and … their consequent impact on birth outcomes. Noting this, we ask how intimate partner violence and women's work status … interact and how women's 'autonomy' is negotiated to mitigate adverse birth outcomes such as miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth …