This anthology of 16 papers seeks to analyse the important issues concerning the women workers in informal sector in India. Examining their employment conditions, it describes in detail the gender discrimination in education, employment and wages in the country.
Focusing on sectoral and regional studies, it makes a critical assessment of women workers’ condition in manufacturing, agriculture, sugar industry, engineering education, and retail sector. The issues related to equal pay for equal work, social security, and labour laws and welfare programmes have been addressed as well.
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