Gendered Inequalities In Paid And Unpaid Work Of Women In India

Author : Vibhuti Patel,Nandita Mondal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811699740

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Gendered Inequalities in Paid and Unpaid Work of Women in India by Vibhuti Patel,Nandita Mondal Pdf

This book explores Indian women's economic contribution through paid and unpaid work in different sectors of the economy and society in extremely diverse life situations and geographical locations. It highlights gender implications of 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, agricultural, fisheries, sericulture, plantation and service sectors of the Indian economy. It provides nuanced insights into intersectional marginalities of caste, class, ethnicity, religion and gender. The chapters are based on primary data collection and triangulation of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. It presents the multiple marginalities of Indian women in the globalized political economy of the 21st century. It not only focuses on emerging issues but also suggests evidence-based policy imperatives. This book is an essential read for researchers, scholars, policymakers, practitioners and students of women/gender studies.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032233168

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Gender, Unpaid Work and Care in India by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

This book explores the paradox of women's paid and unpaid work in India. It examines key themes including historical discourses, macroeconomic policies, employment trends, issues of tribal areas, public services and infrastructure, climate change and gendered migration, and vulnerability of girl children. It highlights the play of gender norms, resource rights, identities and agency in women's work. Building on feminist theoretical frameworks and empirical analyses from microstudies, the volume offers fresh perspectives for research and policy on women's work in the Global South. A timely intervention, this multidisciplinary book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political economy, labour studies, women's/gender studies, public policy, economics, development studies, sociology, South Asian studies, and Global South studies. It will interest planners, policymakers, gender advocates, civil society organizations, human rights bodies and international organizations working towards ensuring gender equality and women's rights.

Author : Mamta Mahrotra
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789350483626

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Gender Inequality In India by Mamta Mahrotra Pdf

The status of women is how the society perceives a women and not what it should be. Women at every stage are deprived of opportunities because of their sexuality. This book is a small step towards the realization of the fragrance called woman and to accept the Kasturithat is the inherent qualityof a woman. India is our motherland and we belong to it. It is high time that we learn to give our women respect and treat them with dignity they deserve. Women are the pillars of any society and the foundation stone of any family. Now they should be accepted as such with all their innate abilities, talents, qualitiesand more than that as 'Women' - a wonderful creation blessed with the power of creation and the power to reproduce and replicate. I hope any small step towards the realization of this concept would bealong step in changing the mindset of all our self-acclaimed social gurus and custodians of dharma and fatwas in treating women as equal partners in the growth of the nation, family and children – an asset which cannot be treated lightly. Gender Inequality In India by Mamta Mahrotra: "Gender Inequality In India: Challenging Social Norms" is a thought-provoking book by Mamta Mahrotra that critically examines the issue of gender inequality in India. Drawing on research, case studies, and personal narratives, the book sheds light on the systemic barriers, social norms, and cultural biases that perpetuate gender disparities. It calls for collective action and societal transformation to achieve gender equality and empower women. Key Aspects of the Book "Gender Inequality In India: Challenging Social Norms": Systemic Analysis: "Gender Inequality In India" provides a systemic analysis of the factors contributing to gender inequality. It explores social, economic, and political dimensions, dissecting the patriarchal structures, gender roles, and discriminatory practices that hinder women's progress and perpetuate inequality. Case Studies and Personal Narratives: The book incorporates case studies and personal narratives that highlight the lived experiences of women affected by gender inequality. These stories bring a human face to the issue, fostering empathy and understanding while illustrating the diverse challenges faced by women in different spheres of life. Call for Transformation: "Gender Inequality In India" advocates for societal transformation to challenge and overcome gender disparities. It emphasizes the importance of collective action, policy reforms, and changing cultural attitudes to create a more inclusive and equitable society. The book aims to inspire readers to actively participate in the movement for gender equality. Mamta Mahrotra, a passionate advocate for gender equality, delves into the complex issue of gender inequality in "Gender Inequality In India: Challenging Social Norms." With a deep understanding of the social, cultural, and systemic factors at play, Mahrotra presents a comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced by women in India. Her book serves as a call to action, urging readers to confront and dismantle the barriers that perpetuate gender inequality. "Gender Inequality In India" invites individuals, policymakers, and society at large to work together towards creating a more just and inclusive world, where women have equal opportunities and their rights are fully realized. Q

Author : Purva Khera
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498310260

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Macroeconomic Impacts of Gender Inequality and Informality in India by Purva Khera Pdf

This paper examines the macroeconomic interaction between informality and gender inequality in the labor market. A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is built to study the impact of gender-targeted policies on female labor force participation, female formal employment, gender wage gap, as well as on aggregate economic outcomes. The model is estimated using Bayesian techniques and Indian data. Although these policies are found to increase female labor force participation and output, lack of sufficient formal job creation due to labor market rigidities leads to an increase in unemployment and informality, and further widens gender gaps in formal employment and wages. Simultaneously implementing such policies with formal job creating policies helps remove these adverse impacts while also leading to significantly larger gains in output.

Author : Irene George,Moly Kuruvilla
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030853358

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Gendered Experiences of COVID-19 in India by Irene George,Moly Kuruvilla Pdf

This edited volume critically reflects on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect women in India. Drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative research, contributors analyze the implications of the pandemic on the informal sector, migrant women workers, women in the health care sector, women’s economic engagement, the experiences of elderly women, mental health care, higher education, and more. Chapters also consider what gender-responsive policies are needed to ensure women’s equal rights, representation, and participation in society during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This timely and relevant volume situates India within the larger global context of conversations around economic, social and political consequences of the pandemic upon gender inequalities This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and policy makers in the fields of Sociology, Gender Studies, and Public and Social Policy.

Author : Sonalde Desai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : India
ISBN : 0878340823

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Gender Inequalities and Demographic Behavior by Sonalde Desai Pdf

Author : Bina Agarwal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1360 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199093625

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Gender Challenges by Bina Agarwal Pdf

An internationally acclaimed economist, Bina Agarwal is known for her path-breaking writings on agriculture, property rights, and the environment. Her three-volume compendium brings together a selection of her essays, written over three decades. Combining diverse disciplines, methodologies, and cross-country comparisons, the essays challenge standard economic analyses and assumptions from a gender perspective. They provide original insights on a wide range of theoretical, empirical, and policy issues of continuing importance in contemporary debates. The first volume spans varied dimensions of the author’s writings on agrarian change, from 1981 to the present. It identifies gender inequalities in the impact of agricultural modernisation and technical change across Asia and Africa; the links between women, poverty, and economic growth processes; and data biases in measuring women’s work. It traces the gendered costs of droughts and famine, and challenges top-down methods of innovation diffusion. Focusing on the key role of women farmers in food security, it also offers innovative solutions, including public land banks and group farming. The second volume focuses on the author’s paradigm-shifting work on women’s property status in South Asia. Challenging conventional approaches to women’s empowerment, it demonstrates how promoting access to property, especially land, is key to enhancing women’s economic and social well-being and deterring domestic violence. It details gender inequalities in inheritance laws, public policies, and land struggles, and presents the bargaining framework for understanding and finding ways of overcoming these inequalities, both within families and in markets, communities, and vis-à-vis the state. This third volume traces the relationship between gender and environmental change. Critiquing ecofeminist assumptions, it presents an alternative theoretical framework. It also examines the causes of women’s absence as well as the impact of their presence in environmental collective action. Based on innovative fieldwork on community institutions for forest governance, the author demonstrates how a critical mass of women can significantly improve conservation outcomes. In conclusion, she reflects on which features of feminist scholarship make for an effective challenge to mainstream economics.

Author : Indira Hirway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198885993

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India Social Development Report 2023 by Indira Hirway Pdf

This report highlights that gender inequalities and women's subordination in India are caused by two formidable macro-structures: patriarchy and the exclusion of unpaid work from the macro-economy. Both these structures reinforce each other and negatively impact women's empowerment. Patriarchy imposes subordination on women and forces a disproportionately higher share of unpaid domestic services and unpaid care onto them. This is unfair and unjust - a violation of basic human rights. Other structures like race, religion, and caste cut across these main structures. The selected papers in this report show how patriarchy causes gender inequalities in all critical dimensions of women's life on the one hand, and how unpaid domestic services and unpaid care sustains the macro-economy and its growth on the other. The contributors discuss pathways to integrate unpaid work with the macro-economy such that the strength of patriarchy declines and at the same time gender equality is promoted. To put it differently, unless the structures are addressed by integrating unpaid work, inequalities cannot be addressed effectively. The report emphasizes that this is the only way to move to real macroeconomics. The papers have explored pathways to break these structures gradually to achieve gender equality and empower women. Though the path is challenging, it is feasible to reach the goal of pervasive gender equality.

Author : Manasi Sinha
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783656557012

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The Gender-Mainstreaming: Bridging Gender Inequality in India by Manasi Sinha Pdf

Research paper from the year 2013 in the subject Sociology - Gender Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (School of International Studies), course: Ph.D, language: English, abstract: The socially constructed gender roles which rooted in India’s socio structural set up internalizes further the sense of gender inequality or gender bias and accepted it as ‘Norm’. This gender inequality manifests across social, economic and political domain of Indian society in form of preference of boy child over a girl child, falling sex ratio, lack of participation of women in decision making process, lack of control of women over power structure in society. This further results in to domestic violence, sexual harassment, rape, molestation and may more crimes. There have been many gender equality measures taken place at policy level in order to reduce gender discrimination since independence. However, even after 65 years of independence India is still burning with gender discrimination at all levels. The reason behind this gender bias has been the fact that the gender equality measures are mostly oriented towards women and sought to achieve gender equality through positive action or economic opportunity for women only. This paper therefore, attempts to analyze the new gender equality measure namely the gender-mainstreaming strategy as a way to reduce this gender discrimination. The paper dwells into addressing three questions: How gender-mainstreaming strategy could be a better way to eliminate this gender bias? How is it different from other gender equality measures? and What results it could yield in the process of its implementation? Therefore the objective of the paper is to study how the socially constructed gender roles result into gender discrimination in society and how this discrimination can be removed through bringing changes in mindset of people and society at large with the help of gender-mainstreaming strategy.

Author : Rachel Connelly,Ebru Kongar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137568373

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Gender and Time Use in a Global Context by Rachel Connelly,Ebru Kongar Pdf

This edited volume uses a feminist approach to explore the economic implications of the complex interrelationship between gender and time use. Household composition, sexuality, migration patterns, income levels, and race/ethnicity are all considered as important factors that interact with gender and time use patterns. The book is split in two sections: The macroeconomic portion explores cutting edge issues such as time poverty and its relationship to income poverty, and the macroeconomic effects of recession and austerity; while the microeconomic section studies topics such as differences by age, activity sequencing, and subjective well-being of time spent. The chapters also examine a range of age groups, from the labor of school-age children to elderly caregivers, and analyze time use in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Finland, India, Korea, South Africa, Tanzania, Turkey, and the United States. Each chapter provides a substantial introduction to the academic literature of its focus and is written to be revealing to researchers and accessible to students and policymakers.

Author : Veronika Eder
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783656516361

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Gender Inequality and Empowerment of Women in India by Veronika Eder Pdf

Pre-University Paper from the year 2012 in the subject Social Studies/ Civics, grade: 15,00, , language: English, abstract: In dieser Arbeit wird die Geschlechterrolle der Indischen Frauen bzw. deren Benachteiligung von verschieden Seiten beleuchtet. Außerdem wird dargestellt, wie bzw. wer (Institutionen, Organisationen)in Zukunft dabei helfen kann und wird, indischen Frauen mehr Macht zu geben.

Author : Mohammad Tarique
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783656089452

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Education and Women Empowerment in India by Mohammad Tarique Pdf

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, Aligarh Muslim University (Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India), course: Economics, language: English, abstract: International efforts to address gender inequality have largely emphasized education as a means of achieving women's empowerment. Education serves as the conduit by which women, long rooted in the private sphere, move into the public sphere and assert themselves on an equal basis with men. As a springboard to employment and economic independence, advocates say, education provides the critical foundation from which further empowerment flows. It is in this backdrop that the present paper tries to find the relationship between inequality in education and women empowerment. The entire paper is divided into three parts. The first part is introductory that talks about the second and third goal of MDGs which is achieving universal primary education and promote gender equality and empower women respectively with certain indicators to achieve these goals. This part also gives a brief account of the gender inequality in education and employment world wide. In the second portion, the importance of education in general and women education in particular has been highlighted. It talks about the gender inequality in literacy in India. A comparative analysis between different states of the country is being made with regard to the parameters like education dimension index and the same index if adjusted for inequality. Further, the parameters like inequality adjusted HDI, education and income index have been taken for few countries to make a comparative analysis. To find the impact of inequality in education on various other parameters, a correlation matrix has been calculated. To know the level of women empowerment in various parts of the world, the variables like female share in national parliament, percentage of female literacy and female labour force participation rate has

Author : Shewli Kumar
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781947498372

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The Gendered Terrain of Maintenance for Women by Shewli Kumar Pdf

This book is an effort to describe and analyze the reasons why women seek maintenance from their estranged husbands under 125CrPC. Despite the changing development paradigm in India, which is redefining gender roles making women more visible in the economic arena as well as in certain positions of power, a large number of women continue to depend on men for sustenance and survival. The cultural construct of women being dependent needing protection and as symbols of honor of their families and community continue to haunt them throughout their life. While violence against women is one part of the increasing patriarchy in society, on the other hand the dependency of women continues to be another reality reinforced by socio-cultural norms and traditions. In India, within its diverse population, women’s experiences of childhood, adolescence and marriage follow complex patterns. This book explores the 125CrPC, a common law for maintenance, which is one legal measure that women use to find a way out of destitution and get financial relief when a marriage ends. It makes an effort to locate the real life experiences of women in Delhi, who are seeking maintenance, the diversities in these experiences and explains the varied reasons as to why they need to do so. It also looks into why and how they reached the dependent status and what their experiences are while litigating for maintenance in the courts. It unravels the trials that they go through to prove their wifehood as chaste, obedient and pure so they may be granted maintenance and this is significantly highlighted in the book.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131611507

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Gender Inequality and Discrimination in India by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mohammad Tarique
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783656089292

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Education and Women Empowerment in India by Mohammad Tarique Pdf

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, Aligarh Muslim University (Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India), course: Economics, language: English, abstract: International efforts to address gender inequality have largely emphasized education as a means of achieving women’s empowerment. Education serves as the conduit by which women, long rooted in the private sphere, move into the public sphere and assert themselves on an equal basis with men. As a springboard to employment and economic independence, advocates say, education provides the critical foundation from which further empowerment flows. It is in this backdrop that the present paper tries to find the relationship between inequality in education and women empowerment. The entire paper is divided into three parts. The first part is introductory that talks about the second and third goal of MDGs which is achieving universal primary education and promote gender equality and empower women respectively with certain indicators to achieve these goals. This part also gives a brief account of the gender inequality in education and employment world wide. In the second portion, the importance of education in general and women education in particular has been highlighted. It talks about the gender inequality in literacy in India. A comparative analysis between different states of the country is being made with regard to the parameters like education dimension index and the same index if adjusted for inequality. Further, the parameters like inequality adjusted HDI, education and income index have been taken for few countries to make a comparative analysis. To find the impact of inequality in education on various other parameters, a correlation matrix has been calculated. To know the level of women empowerment in various parts of the world, the variables like female share in national parliament, percentage of female literacy and female labour force participation rate has been taken. The third and final part is given to concluding observations.