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Women Workers in India (Hardcover)
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The problems of women workers in general -- and in the unorganised
sector in particular -- deserve special attention and focus in view
of their marginalised position within the class of workers. The
position of women workers in rural India is considerably lower than
that of women in general. The bottom layer is constituted by women
belonging to the lowest social status groups. A number of national
and international studies have documented the sex-typing of jobs
and occupations by women. Occupational segregation represents a
form of discrimination. Discrimination on the lines of gender is
not always overt. It appears in very subtle forms such as in the
nature of work performed, skills required to perform the work and
the valuation of these skills and the technology used by men and
women. One problem more specific to women is that they are subject
to various forms of harassment at the workplace. Verbal and
physical violence against women has been an age-old method of
subjugating them. Female and child domestic workers constitute a
large portion of migrant worker population. Working in the
unregulated domain of a private home, mostly without the protection
of national labour legislations, allows for female domestic workers
to be maltreated by their employers with impunity. This volume
contains 16 well-researched papers by scholars in the field of
women studies. These scholarly papers explain and examine the
various aspects of working conditions of women workers in India.
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