This Working Paper is about the unemployment situation in Kerala.
Several studies for developing countries have come up with econometric evidence to indicate that an inverse relationship exists between supply of labour and wage rate at low level of wage, especially for women in rural areas.
Son preference, or the privileging of sons over daughters in accordance to a patriarchal system, isa growing phenomenon in India.
The paper examines issues related to citizenship and political participation of dalit women.
In this paper we have attempted to raise an issue which has always concerned feminist scholars- the sex segregation of jobs and its perpetuation over time to the disadvantage of women workers, in the context of the nineties, the period of globalisation in India.