""Discusses the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in the cityscape and bringing to surface the contradictions that this assumption offers"--Pr

This paper examines the determinants of female labor force participation in India, against the backdrop of India having one of the lowest participation rates fo

The last available census estimated around 10 per cent of total urban working women in India are concentrated in the low paid domestic services such as cleaning

In Making Women Pay, Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, which in the past two decades has come to saturate the everyday lives of women

Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped the