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Women Workers in Urban India
Saraswati Raju
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Description for Women Workers in Urban India
hardcover. This monograph examines the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in urban India. Editor(s): Raju, Saraswati; Jatrana, Santosh. Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; KCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 238 x 26. Weight in Grams: 560.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107133280
SKU
V9781107133280
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-18
About Saraswati Raju
Saraswati Raju works at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development at the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her previous books include Colonial and Post-colonial Geographies of India and Doing Gender, Doing Geography: Emerging Research in India. Santosh Jatrana works at the Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne Faculty of Business and Law, Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne. ... Read more
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