Explore the intricate dynamics of women’s roles in the economy, uncovering the impact of gender roles, labor market segmentation, and globalization on women’s work, while gaining insights into feminist debates, policy measures, and social protection frameworks that aim to enhance gender equality and economic empowerment.
India’s food security: law, court orders, and welfare schemes ensure food and nutrition for millions.
Explore MGNREGA: India’s massive rural employment law. Understand its impact on wages, migration, asset creation, and ongoing challenges.
Examining India’s Right to Education Act: successes in enrolment, gender parity, & infrastructure, & challenges in learning, teacher quality & dropouts.
MGNREGA: India’s rural job guarantee scheme boosts wages, empowers women, builds infrastructure, and reduces migration.
India’s RTE Act promises free education but faces infrastructure, teacher, and learning gaps, leaving millions behind.
Discover pre-independence India’s radical blueprint for gender justice, drafted by women in 1939.
Trace India’s women’s development journey from Planning Commission welfare to NITI Aayog empowerment.
India’s Five Year Plans evolved from women’s welfare to empowerment, shaping gender equality policy from the 1950s.
Explore India’s Five Year Plans: Evolution from welfare to women’s empowerment, gender budgeting, and inclusive growth.
Explore India’s key institutions shaping women’s development policy, from welfare delivery to rights protection and inter-sectoral convergence.
India’s 2001 National Policy for Empowerment of Women: A deep dive into its goals, impact, and ongoing challenges for gender equality.
Explore India’s women-centric schemes: RMK, STEP, Swayamsidha, Mission Shakti, & Lakhpati Didi. Understand how they empower women economically.
Explore India’s journey from the Women Component Plan to modern gender budgeting and audits, revealing how public funds are allocated for women’s equity.
Globalization’s impact on women: poverty, inequality, and exclusion. Explore the complex economic realities women face globally.
Global economic shifts have left women in precarious, low-paid jobs. Explore how welfare state decline and deregulation impact female labor.
Explore women’s evolving role in the global workforce, from exploited factory jobs to polarized service roles and the persistent glass ceiling.
Discover why women dominate part-time work, the hidden costs, and the myth of flexibility.
Learn how structural adjustment programs reshaped women’s lives, pushing them into informal labor and precarious jobs in developing nations.
Globalization has increased women’s farm work in India but reduced their rights & income. Learn how trade policies affect female farmers.
Discover how post-socialist transitions in Eastern Europe and the former USSR negatively impacted women’s employment, rights, and gender roles.
Explore the Washington Consensus: its neoliberal roots, impact on global labor, gendered fallout, and shift to local development models.
Explores how global production relies on undervalued women’s labor, leading to inequality, precarious work, and exploitation in export industries.
Outsourcing reshapes global employment, offering women work but also precarious conditions, low wages, and safety concerns.
Examines the New International Division of Labour through a feminist lens, revealing how global production relies on cheap, precarious female labor.
Globalization’s paradox: women fuel economies but face poverty. Learn about the feminization of poverty and workforce.
Explore the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), their focus on gender equality (MDG 3), achievements, limitations, and lessons for the SDGs.
Explore the paradox of feminisation of labour: more women working, but in precarious, informal jobs. Understand its impact on economic empowerment.
Explore the feminisation of labour: rising female employment, precarious work, and economic inequality in developed & developing nations.
Explore theories on the feminisation of labour: supply-side vs. demand-side economics, and how they explain women’s work & pay gaps.
Globalisation’s impact on Indian women: examining exploitation in export industries, the double burden of paid/unpaid work, and calls for fairer terms.