There is a growing focus on generating evidence on violence against informal women workers across the world.

Actor Smriti Kalra visited the Rajya Sabha and new Parliament in Delhi to celebrate the passing of Women Reservation Bill, and she calls it a moment of pride and honour. “It has been a long journey since 1996, when the bill was first presented and it was passed after several attempts.

“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.

One of the important determinants of poverty in both absolute and relative terms is the level and growth of wages in an economy.