How have hired workers fared?: a case study of women workers from an Indian village, 1977 to 1999

Type Working Paper
Title How have hired workers fared?: a case study of women workers from an Indian village, 1977 to 1999
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2001
URL http://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6604898.pdf
Abstract
This paper examines certain aspects of employment among women workers in hired labour households, drawing on two surveys of Gokilapuram, a village in south-west Tamil Nadu, India, conducted in 1977 and 1999. The study finds that, first, work participation rates among women were high. Secondly, a woman was able to gain employment in 1999, on average, for only about six months a year. Thirdly, there was a distinct shift between 1977 and 1999 in the composition of total employment available to women Fourthly, while the real wage rate for women at cash-paid, daily-rated crop operations rose significantly between 1977 and 1999, the gender gap in wages widened.

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