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.

Introduction The Present e-rural camp was conducted under the Centre for Gender and Labour Studies for strengthening the skills of the p

“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.

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.