This book explores Indian women's economic contribution through paid and unpaid work in different sectors of the … interlinkages between local, national, regional and global dimensions of women's paid and unpaid work in India. It encompasses a … vast canvas of life worlds of working women in the metropolitan, urban, peri-urban, rural, tribal areas in manufacturing …

Introduction -- Trends in employment -- Unemployment and underemployment -- Casualisation -- Feminisation of labour … force -- Informalisation of employment -- Emerging opportunities for employment : the case of IT and IT-enabled services …

, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points … men and women in April, to recover in August, but not to the pre-pandemic levels. The paper also examines available income …