000			01392nam a22001817a 4500
999			_c25357 _d25357
020			_a 978-1-107-13328-0
082			_a331.40954 _bWOM-
245			_aWomen workers in urban India
260			_aDelhi _bCambridge University Press, _c2016
300			_a xiii,338p.
504			_aInclude Index
520			_aThis 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
546			_aEnglish
650			_aDiscrimination _vWomen Employees _vUrban _zIndia
700			_aRaju, Saraswati
700			_aJatrana, Santosh
942			_2ddc _cBK