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.

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