Sarala Gopalan Renana Jhabvala Indrani Pieris Bruce Caldwell Vishaka Hidellege Ratna M. Sudarshan
Abstract
The papers included in this volume were first presented at an international conference on Gender Perspectives in Population. Health and Development organized by NCAER in January 1996, with support from the MacArthur Foundation. The first two papers highlight aspects of women's employment in India. The paper by Sarala Gopalan gives an overview of the work participation rates, sectoral distribution, and the concentration of women's employment by Industry groups in different states. This is complemented by Renana Jhabvala's study of the characteristics of unorganized sector workers in India. Based on this, some elements of a National Employment Policy are identified.
The remaining two papers look at different aspects of Sri Lankan development experience. Vishaka Hidellege examines the situation of home based women workers in the cashew industry. In the prevailing situation of exploitative marketing arrangements and gender inequality, women workers have not been able to get the benefits of various incentive schemes. The paper by Pieris and Caldwell looks at an aspect of Sri Lankan development that has clearly been very successful, i.e. the reduction in mortality rates, and in the gender differential in these rates. The social change that explains this has, as expounded here, several different components.
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Length: Date of creation: Jul 1997 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:nca:ncaerw:66
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