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Locating the Processes of Policy Change in the Context of Anti-Rape and Domestic Worker Mobilisations in India

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  • Mubashira Zaidi
  • Anweshaa Ghosh
  • Shraddha Chigateri

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The report argues that state responses to women’s claims making provide a complex and variegated picture of a non-linear, slow, sporadic and contingent process of policy change, with iterations and reiterations by women’s groups met over a period of time by non-responses, intermittent gains, reversals and wars of attrition by the state. Domestic worker mobilisations have not had as long and consolidated a history as anti-rape mobilisations, which is reflected in the nature of state responses—with policy change and law reform in domestic work remaining sporadic and scattered, whereas there have been widespread reforms in anti-rape laws, albeit with as many reversals as gains.

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  • Mubashira Zaidi & Anweshaa Ghosh & Shraddha Chigateri, 2016. "Locating the Processes of Policy Change in the Context of Anti-Rape and Domestic Worker Mobilisations in India," Working Papers id:10647, eSocialSciences.
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    1. Rajesh Joseph & Balmurli Natrajan & Roshni Lobo, 2019. "Domestic workers and the challenges of collectivization: labor NGOs, neighborhoods, apartment complexes," DECISION: Official Journal of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Springer;Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, vol. 46(2), pages 99-109, June.
    2. Geetanjali Misra & Nafisa Ferdous, 2017. "Why Legal Reform is Insufficient to Ensure Sexual Equality," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 60(1), pages 96-99, September.
    3. Nitya Rao, 2018. "Global Agendas, Local Norms: Mobilizing around Unpaid Care and Domestic Work in Asia," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 49(3), pages 735-758, May.

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