Using a mixed-method approach of telephonic surveys and in-depth interviews with key informants and women workers, this … study aims to assess the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown has had on women waste workers and … work and childcare has increased significantly. This poses a problem for women workers in terms of managing paid work …

-lockdown on the lives of women street vendors in Delhi. The results indicated that although restrictions have been eased in the … post-lockdown phase, many women street vendors have lost the means to work and witnessed a significant fall in income …

feminisation of workforce. This paper focuses on this changing position of women in the informal manufacturing sector in India over …Women's position in the labour market is quite vulnerable and they face widespread discrimination, especially in the … the 1989-2000 period. The share of women in total employment is declining in the sectors traditionally labeled for women …

approaches. According to the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC), there were 244.9 million households in India of which 179 … activities. In agriculture, the role of women cannot be denied. They contribute in every operation of agricultural activities and … poultry farming etc. Women participation in total workforce was assessed 27.44 per cent as against 72.56 per cent by male …

cultural interaction effects that could explain the decline in rural female LFP. -- labor force ; women ; rural ; India …Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why … did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher …

This paper deals with an important but neglected aspect of female labor force participation (LFP) in urban India …. Contemporary literature that deals with urban female LFP in India typically focuses on the entire urban sector, and invariably … comparative picture of nature, type jobs that women take up and various correlates of female LFP from both slum- and non …

the delicate handling of fruits and vegetables and therefore provide employment opportunities for women in rural areas …. However, the social implications of these developments for women workers' roles in their households remain hardly understood …. We address this research gap by assessing a wide range of indicators reflecting women's empowerment. We use primary …