abstract: 'The aim of this paper is to examine the level of female workforce

  participation and quality of employment in rural Jharkhand based on

  primary survey conducted in 1300 households spread across 7 districts.

  The study has used mixed method approach to understand the work status

  and barriers faced by women in accessing quality of employment. Our main

  findings are that rather than geographic factors, female labour force

  participation varies more with social norms, which usually work in

  tandem with economic position of a household as reflected in land and

  asset holdings. In addition, the cultural norms that assign most of the

  household responsibilities and unpaid work to women prevent them from

  accessing paid work opportunities. We also find that there exists gender

  wage gap both in casual wage and in regular salaried job with women

  workers at a disadvantage. There is a need to design the skilling and

  employment opportunities for them which will be suitable for the women

  to balance both paid and domestic work and to close the gender gap in

  wages and salaries.'
affiliation: 'Endow, T (Corresponding Author), Inst Human Dev, New Delhi, India.

  Endow, Tanuka; Dutta, Swati, Inst Human Dev, New Delhi, India.'
author: Endow, Tanuka and Dutta, Swati
author-email: 'tanuka.endow@ihdindia.org

  swati.dutta@ihdindia.org'
author_list:
- family: Endow
  given: Tanuka
- family: Dutta
  given: Swati
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s41027-022-00376-8
earlyaccessdate: JUL 2022
eissn: 0019-5308
files: []
issn: 0971-7927
journal: INDIAN JOURNAL OF LABOUR ECONOMICS
keywords: 'Work force participation; Wages; Quality of work; Female; Rural;

  Jharkhand'
language: English
month: JUN
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '17'
pages: 483-502
papis_id: e686908a79bfd25bad47f10a1abd67ad
ref: Endow2022femaleworkforce
times-cited: '0'
title: 'Female Workforce Participation and Vulnerability in Employment: Evidence from
  Rural Jharkhand'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000830263300001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '3'
volume: '65'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; Industrial Relations \& Labor
year: '2022'