that the 'intersectionality' between gender and caste leads to increased gender inequality among professionals in India. … female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer … consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that …

effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply …

caste and religious identities in India, and how that has changed over time. I use data from seven different rounds of … National Sample Survey (NSS) to investigate the wage differences that accrue due to different caste and religious identities. I … find that Indian Muslim men earn slightly lower wages compared to their upper-caste Hindu counterparts, and this difference …

for its rights. Gender means elimination of inequality and promote equality between women and men in all areas of social …After the World War II, especially in the early fifties there is an expansion of gender rights. Women are massively … life. If we want to achieve gender equality as a whole, it is inevitable to achieve an economic consolidation of the two …

Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses … significantly worse. The mean decomposition reveals that as much as 55 per cent of the caste earnings gap could be attributed to the … face greater discrimination. …