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- Title
WOMEN DOMESTIC WORKERS IN URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR: A CASE STUDY OF VADODARA CITY.
- Authors
Agrawal, Sarita
- Abstract
The growing participation of women in the labour force, changes in the organization of work and intensification of work, and also the lack of policies reconciling work and family life, the decline in state provision of care services, the feminization of international migration and the ageing of societies have all increased the demand for care workers in the recent years. The occupation is feminized and women constitute a majority among domestic workers that comprises a significant part of the global workforce in the informal employment and are among the most vulnerable groups of workers. The present paper is based on a primary survey of women domestic workers in the city of Vadodara. The study found that younger women are less inclined to take up domestic work. Due to the lack of alternatives the women from lower socio-economic background having low level of education/illiteracy are forced to work as domestic labourers. Domestic work has to be placed in the larger context of patriarchy and subjugation of women.
- Subjects
VADODARA (India); WOMEN household employees; INFORMAL sector; SOCIOECONOMICS; PATRIARCHY
- Publication
Manpower Journal, 2023, Vol 57, Issue 1/2, p1
- ISSN
0542-5808
- Publication type
Article