abstract: 'This paper examines quantitative and qualitative dimensions of

  employment issues in India from gender lens. Inequality in quantitative

  aspects have been analysed gender gap in work participation, composition

  and structure of employment. The study finds that female work

  participation in India has declined sharply despite faster economic

  growth and improvement in female literacy outcomes. The magnitude of

  decline is sharper in case of illiterate, women from less privileged

  class and rural backgrounds. Similarly, even after two decades of

  economic reform, female workers are highly concentrated in low

  productive, less remunerative and unpaid family labour category of self

  employment activities. Considering the qualitative dimension of jobs,

  the paper finds that the condition of female workers are more vulnerable

  as they are highly concentrated in informal sector and informal jobs

  with no employment security, no social security, and are being paid

  relatively lower wages compared to male workers in most of the

  sub-sector. The paper argues for an urgent policy intervention to ensure

  access to decent jobs and to provide protection to these vulnerably

  placed women workers.'
affiliation: 'Ara, S (Corresponding Author), Indian Econ Serv, New Delhi, India.

  Ara, Shamim, Indian Econ Serv, New Delhi, India.

  Ara, Shamim, JNU, Ctr Study Reg Dev, New Delhi, India.'
author: Ara, Shamim
author_list:
- family: Ara
  given: Shamim
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s40953-018-0118-7
eissn: 2364-1045
files: []
issn: 0971-1554
journal: JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE ECONOMICS
keywords: 'Gender inequality; Economic reform; Quality of jobs; Informalisation;

  Job market segmentation; Wage inequality; C83; C87; C88; J1; J31'
language: English
month: MAR
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '25'
pages: 93-120
papis_id: b71cb057936f2db3118bf733d695472d
ref: Ara2019globalisationgender
times-cited: '1'
title: 'Globalisation and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Labour Market in India'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000538600100005
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '4'
volume: '17'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2019'