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Karma and the Myth of the New Indian Super Woman: Missing Women in the Indian Workforce

In: Land, Labour and Livelihoods

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  • Bhavani Arabandi

    (Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University)

Abstract

Women’s education and employment are considered fundamental to the development of national economic growth, empowerment and maximization of human potential. And yet the latest reports from India indicate that while women’s educational opportunities are expanding, curiously, their labour force participation is declining. What explains this gap between women’s educational attainment and their labour force participation? Where are the missing women? This ethnographic study of women who were once employed in high status careers illuminates how class, gender and notions of motherhood mutually shape the meanings and economic value of women’s work at the intersection of the family and labour market such that women in India ‘choose’ to withdraw from the workforce.

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  • Bhavani Arabandi, 2016. "Karma and the Myth of the New Indian Super Woman: Missing Women in the Indian Workforce," Gender, Development and Social Change, in: Land, Labour and Livelihoods, pages 177-196, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gdechp:978-3-319-40865-1_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40865-1_9
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