This book examines the socio-economic status of domestic helps in terms of wages, work security and their economic contribution in the family. It also delineates how these women combine their professional work with domestic responsibilities as wives, mothers and daughters.
It makes an attempt to highlight the living conditions of women domestic helps, their education and their children’s education, rate of wages, their exploitation, relation between them and their masters and their common and unheard problems. It also includes interesting case studies, and comparison of socio-economic status of domestic workers with other working females.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anil Bhuimali
Dr. Anil Bhuimali, M.A. (Economics), Ph.D: (Economics) from the University of North Bengal, West Bengal is currently serving the Department of Economics, University of North Bengal as
Reader in Economics. Earlier he was associated with Dinhata College, Cooch Behar College and Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal College, Cooch Behar, West Bengal. After his M.A. he was the Junior Research Fellow of National Cooperative Union of India and University Grant Commission. He was also university Grants Commission Treacher Fellow during 1991-92. His areas of specialization, among others, are Rural Economics, Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, Gender Economics and Gandhian Economics. He has published in his credit, several research papers in reputed journals of economics and social sciences. Her has contributed papers in national and international seminars, workshops and conferences. He is the author of the books Arthanaitik Unnayan O Parisankhyan Bijnan (Joint), International Economics: Theory and Policy (in press). Empowering Women in Education and Employment (Ed.) (in press). He has been the life member of Indian Econometric Society, Indian Society of Gandhian Studies, Indian Association of Women’s Studies, Bangiya Arthaniti Parishad and Balason Society for Improved Environment.
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