In the recent assembly elections, we were once again inundated with information about how much of a difference the women’s vote made to the outcome.

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“Women hold up half the sky”, the Chinese saying goes. But we need to recognize that it is not an equal world for women, globally and in India.

THERE is enough evidence to show that often, development policies adopted by governments have widened the disparities amongst sections of people.

This paper is divided into two parts.

Globally, two billion people are engaged in informal work, of whom a disproportionate number - 66 percent of workers - are women.