{"product_id":"women-and-work-9788125047773","title":"Women and Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Padmini Swaminathan (Ed.)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe notion of ‘work and employment’ of ‘work and employment’ for women is complex. While economic factors predominantly determine a man’s participation in employment, the reasons why women work, or do not work, or whether they work part-time or full-time, can be diverse and are often rooted in a complex interplay of economic, cultural, social and personal factors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify\"\u003eIn India, as in most other parts of the world, fewer women participate in employment compared to men. This is the backdrop against which Women and Work analyses a wide range of issues—from what counts for ‘work’ to the economic contribution of women to how gendering of work has many significant and related consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify\"\u003eThe introduction talks of how oppression faced by wage-earning women is the result of patriarchal norms and capitalist relations of production. It also demonstrates how policies and programmes anchored around data based on national income accounts and\/or labour force surveys seriously disadvantage women in more ways than one.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDivided into four sections, the articles focus on women engaged in varied work—paddy-growers in West Bengal, beedi-rollers in Tamil Nadu, laceworkers in Andhra Pradesh and bardancers in Maharashtra—all of whom live and work in dismal conditions, and earn paltry incomes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify\"\u003eBringing together well-known sociologists and economists, this volume will be useful for students and scholars of sociology, economics, political science and women’s studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45616507060375,"sku":"9788125047773","price":961.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788125047773.webp?v=1769294972","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/women-and-work-9788125047773","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}