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Women Workers in Urban India

 
Saraswati Raju (Editor) Santosh Jatrana (Editor)
Synopsis

This volume examines the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in urban India. Employment opportunities have opened up and are constantly expanding for women, but this book interrogates whether their working status is breaking gender stereotypes or reaffirming them. It argues that whether women are working in offices or from home, contributing to the IT sector or labouring as petty producers, they are unable to break out of the gendered codes that place them at the lower rungs of the occupational ladder. More importantly, the hierarchical social order, comprising caste, class and ethnic identities, seems to echo in the gendered structure of the labour market as well. This volume studies the intertwining of work with embedded patriarchal notions of women's places in designated spheres, and the overt and covert processes of resistance that women offer in defining new roles and old ones anew.

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About the author

Saraswati Raju

Saraswati Raju is Associate Professor of Social Geography based at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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Bibliographic information

Title Women Workers in Urban India
Format Hardcover
Date published: 22.08.2016
Edition 1st. ed.
Language: English
isbn 9781107133280
length xiii+338p., Illustrations; 24cm.