edited ravi prakash yadav kumar (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Dust Jacket Included. Contents Foreword 1 Women workers in informal sectorVibhuti Patel 2 Women workers in unorganized manufacturing sector of PunjabAnupama and Neru Gupta 3 Growth urbanization and womenSarita Agrawal Jyoti Achanta and Raginideep 4 Women labourers engaged in agricultural and allied activitiesP Anita and Puja Roy 5 Female domestic workers in PunjabHarvinder Kaur and Monika Rani 6 Women workers in handloom weavingMinaxi Pathak and Nandita Bhattacharyya 7 Stress and coping among women mangers in India organizationsHL Kaila 8 Wage discrimination against women agricultural labourersA Sangamithra and SC Karpagavalle 9 Gender implications of new work orderKaistha Sunita and Amar Nath Singh 10 Gender differences in financial decision makingBindu Arora Patiraj Kumari and Yasmeen Ansari 11 Male female productivity differentials in the unorganised services sectorAtanu Sengupta Soumyendra Kishore Datta and Susanta Mondal 12 Life stress and mental health among women workersTejpreet Kang Vandana Kumari and Rekha Kumari 13 Micro finance institutions and the economic empowerment of womenDhruvalata D Bhatt 14 Empowerment of women in agricultureV Girija Devi 15 Social security provisions for women workers in the informal economyKameshwar Pandit Prabhakar Jha and Randhir Prasad Singh 16 Women workers in beedi manufacturing sectorRavi Prakash Yadav Kumar Chandradeep and Barsa Index The problems of women workers in general and in the unorganised sector in particular deserve special attention and focus in view of their marginalised position within the class of workers The position of women workers in rural India is considerably lower than that of women in general The bottom layer is constituted by women belonging to the lowest social status groups A number of national and international studies have documented the sex typing of jobs and occupations by women Occupational segregation represents a form of discriminationDiscrimination on the lines of gender is not always overt It appears in very subtle forms such as in the nature of work performed skills required to perform the work and the valuation of these skills and the technology used by men and women One problem more specific to women is that they are subject to various forms of harassment at the workplace Verbal and physical violence against women has been an age old method of subjugating themFemale and child domestic workers constitute a large portion of migrant worker population Working in the unregulated domain of a private home mostly without the protection of national labour legislations allows for female domestic workers to be employers with immaltreated by their punityThis volume contains 16 well researched papers by scholars in the field of women studies These scholarly papers explain and examine the various aspects of working conditions of women workers in India jacket 310 pp.