The central idea of this paper is to explore link between socio-economic positions of women working in unorganized … sector with special reference to beedi rolling. In India Beedi making is an age old industry and one of the largest job … providers for women in the unorganized sector. Women are having inherent advantage in this job in this job of beedi rolling due …

market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … level data of India for the year 2011–12 is used to examine the relationship between educational attainment and labour …

assaults and domestic violence in India, we show that a smaller gender gap in earning potential is associated with more rapes …Male backlash, which we define as a hostile response to female empowerment in a gender biased society, drives crime … against women. We provide evidence to support this idea. Combining survey data with administrative records on rapes, indecent …