The global trend of informalisation of women's work is also evident in what is commonly known as artisanal and small …-scale mining (ASM) practices. Women constitute a large segment of workers in the informal mines and quarries all over the world … comprise a repository of extremely poor people. Women are quite invisible although they participate in large numbers in these …

2001, women's employment participation across South Asian countries has been low and broadly unchanged; (ii) the gender … countries, and; (v) women with mid-level education tend to have lower employment rates than those with both lower and higher …