商品描述
This book consisting of 24 chapters provides a comprehensive analysis of the complexities of women's work in India. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary data sources it offers fresh perspectives on long-term patterns and emerging trends. It sheds light on trends in gender equality in employment, the stubbornly low Female Labour Force Participation Rate (FLFPR), the continued invisibility of women's work, and the shortcomings of official labour force surveys in capturing women's economic contributions. It also explores gendered labour market barriers linked to caregiving responsibilities, social group identities, and the high unemployment rates among educated women. Several chapters address persistent issues of discrimination and inequality, including how rising educational attainment among women has shaped labour market outcomes. It critically assesses the growing sectors of childcare and gig work, often viewed as potential pathways to better-paid employment for women, highlighting both their opportunities and limitations. Further, the book provides the policy measures required to enhance women's labour participation; challenges specific to urban contexts and key policies related to public employment and social protection for women. This volume is a valuable resource for researchers, civil society organisations, development practitioners, and policymakers working on women's employment. It is equally relevant for educators and students in gender studies, labour economics, employment research, and development studies.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書共包含24章，對印度女性工作的複雜性進行了全面分析。透過廣泛的初級和次級數據來源，提供了對長期模式和新興趨勢的新視角。它揭示了就業性別平等的趨勢、女性勞動參與率（Female Labour Force Participation Rate, FLFPR）持續低迷、女性工作的持續隱形，以及官方勞動力調查在捕捉女性經濟貢獻方面的不足。書中還探討了與照顧責任、社會群體身份相關的性別化勞動市場障礙，以及受過教育的女性中高失業率的問題。幾章針對持續存在的歧視和不平等問題進行了討論，包括女性教育程度上升如何影響勞動市場結果。
本書批判性地評估了兒童照顧和零工經濟的增長領域，這些領域常被視為女性獲得更高薪資工作的潛在途徑，並突顯了它們的機會與限制。此外，本書提供了增強女性勞動參與所需的政策措施；針對城市環境的特定挑戰以及與女性公共就業和社會保障相關的關鍵政策。
本書對於研究人員、公民社會組織、發展實踐者和專注於女性就業的政策制定者來說，是一個寶貴的資源。對於性別研究、勞動經濟學、就業研究和發展研究的教育工作者和學生而言，同樣具有重要的相關性。
作者簡介
Alakh N. Sharma is Professor and Director of the Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi, India. Professor Sharma has made significant contributions to research on livelihoods, political economy, employment, labour markets, and related themes. Over a career spanning more than four decades, he has led or coordinated over 50 research projects. Professor Sharma has authored, edited, or co-edited 18 books--including two volumes on gender, women, and employment--and has published more than 50 research papers in reputed journals. He is the Editor-in-chief of the Indian Journal of Labour Economics and currently serves as President of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE). Aasha Kapur Mehta is Chairperson of the Centre for Gender Studies and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, India. Previously, she served over three decades as Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. She has been a Member of the Ad-hoc Task Force appointed by the Cabinet Secretariat to review performance targets in government ministries' Results Framework Documents (RFDs), and was part of the Planning Commission's Working Group of Feminist Economists for the Eleventh and Twelfth Plans. She chaired the Subgroup on "Gender Mainstreaming and Effective Accountability Mechanisms" for the Twelfth Plan and the Subgroup on Gender and Agriculture for the Eleventh Plan. Professor Mehta has served on numerous committees constituted by various Ministries of Government of India. She also led the Chronic Poverty Research Centre's work in India. Her books, articles, and working papers address poverty and deprivation, poverty dynamics, human and gender development indicators, gender budgeting, gaps in measuring female labour force participation, paid and unpaid care work, and policy priorities for achieving SDG1 and SDG3. She co-edited 'Poverty, Chronic Poverty and Poverty Dynamics: Policy Imperatives', published by Springer in 2018. Vandana Upadhyay is Professor of Economics at Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Currently, she is also the Director of the Women Studies & Research Centre (WS&RC) at the university. Her research focuses on gender, health, labour and employment, human development, migration, rural livelihoods in mountain economies and the informal sector. She was a Commonwealth Visiting Fellow, attached to the Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Professor Upadhyay has an extensive body of work, including authored and edited books and numerous publications in reputed national and international journals. She co-authored 'The Unfolding Crisis in Assam's Tea Plantations: Employment and Occupational Mobility' (2012) and co-edited 'Rethinking Economic Development in North East India: The Emerging Dynamics' (2017). Her contributions also include the Arunachal Pradesh Human Development Report (2005); the 'Situational Analysis of Women and Girls in Arunachal Pradesh' (National Commission for Women (NCW), 2005); the Arunachal Pradesh State Development Report (2010); the Assam Human Development Report (2016); and the NCW Gender Report on the Social, Economic and Political Empowerment of Women in North East India (2017). She served as the national coordinator for a UGC STRIDE-NITI Aayog study on the enumeration and valuation of women's economic contribution in the Indian Himalayan region, and co-authored the published report (2022).
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
阿拉克·N·夏爾瑪是印度新德里人類發展研究所（IHD）的教授及所長。夏爾瑪教授在生計、政治經濟、就業、勞動市場及相關主題的研究上做出了重要貢獻。在超過四十年的職業生涯中，他主導或協調了超過50個研究項目。夏爾瑪教授著有、編輯或共同編輯18本書籍，包括兩卷有關性別、女性與就業的書籍，並在知名期刊上發表了超過50篇研究論文。他是《印度勞動經濟學期刊》的主編，並目前擔任印度勞動經濟學會（ISLE）的會長。
阿莎·卡普爾·梅赫塔是新德里人類發展研究所性別研究中心的主席及訪問教授。她曾在印度公共行政學院擔任經濟學教授超過三十年。她曾是由內閣秘書處任命的臨時工作小組成員，負責審查政府部門的績效目標框架文件（RFDs），並參與規劃委員會的女性主義經濟學家工作小組，針對第十一和第十二個五年計劃。她主持了第十二個五年計劃的「性別主流化與有效問責機制」小組及第十一個五年計劃的性別與農業小組。梅赫塔教授曾在印度政府的多個部委組成的委員會中任職。她還領導了慢性貧困研究中心在印度的工作。她的書籍、文章和工作報告探討了貧困與剝奪、貧困動態、人類與性別發展指標、性別預算、女性勞動力參與的測量差距、有償與無償的照顧工作，以及實現可持續發展目標1（SDG1）和目標3（SDG3）的政策優先事項。她共同編輯的《貧困、慢性貧困與貧困動態：政策必要性》於2018年由Springer出版。
萬達娜·烏帕迪亞是印度阿魯納恰爾邦伊塔納加爾的拉吉夫·甘地大學經濟學教授。目前，她也是該大學女性研究與研究中心（WS&RC）的主任。她的研究重點包括性別、健康、勞動與就業、人類發展、移民、山區經濟的農村生計及非正式部門。她曾是英國牛津大學伊莉莎白女王大學國際發展部的英聯邦訪問學者。烏帕迪亞教授擁有豐富的研究成果，包括著作和編輯的書籍，以及在知名國內外期刊上發表的多篇文章。她共同撰寫的《阿薩姆邦茶園的危機展開：就業與職業流動性》（2012）及共同編輯的《重新思考印度東北經濟發展：新興動態》（2017）均為重要著作。她的貢獻還包括《阿魯納恰爾邦人類發展報告》（2005）、《阿魯納恰爾邦女性與女孩的情況分析》（印度國家婦女委員會（NCW），2005）、《阿魯納恰爾邦州發展報告》（2010）、《阿薩姆邦人類發展報告》（2016），以及《NCW關於印度東北地區女性社會、經濟與政治賦權的報告》（2017）。她曾擔任UGC STRIDE-NITI Aayog研究的全國協調員，該研究針對印度喜馬拉雅地區女性經濟貢獻的計數與評估，並共同撰寫了已發表的報告（2022）。
