The Indian Labour Market: A Gender Perspective

Abstract

The paper is based on a study commissioned by UN Women in 2014 to analyse women’s work in India. It provides an in-depth analysis of trends in labour outcomes of women in India based on unit level datasets of employment-unemployment surveys undertaken in 1999–2000, 2004–2005 and 2011–2012. The paper brings out the gender differentials that exist in the employment status of women and men despite the existence of legal and policy framework for the empowerment of women in the country.