IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/r/cid/wpfacu/339.html

Women and Work in India: Descriptive Evidence and a Review of Potential Policies

Citations

Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
as


Cited by:

  1. Adams-Prassl, Abigail & Andrew, Alison, 2019. "Preferences and Beliefs in the Marriage Market for Young Brides," CEPR Discussion Papers 13567, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  2. Ashish Kumar Sedai, 2021. "Who Benefits from Piped Water in the House? Empirical Evidence from a Gendered Analysis in India," ADBI Working Papers 1273, Asian Development Bank Institute.
  3. Veeramani, Choorikkad & Banerjee, Purna, 2022. "Exchange rate fluctuations, labour laws, and gender differences in job flows: Analysis of manufacturing industries across Indian states," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
  4. Jorge Luis García, 2025. "Guaranteed Employment in Rural India: Intra-Household Labor and Resource Allocation Consequences," NBER Working Papers 33494, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Chiplunkar, Gaurav & Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou, 2024. "Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship," IZA Discussion Papers 17281, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  6. Indrajit Bairagya & Tulika Bhattacharya & Pragati Tiwari, 2021. "Does Vocational Training Promote Female Labour Force Participation? An Analysis for India," Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research, National Council of Applied Economic Research, vol. 15(1), pages 149-173, February.
  7. Alam,Muneeza Mehmood & Cropper,Maureen L. & Herrera Dappe,Matias & Suri,Palak, 2021. "Closing the Gap: Gender, Transport, and Employment in Mumbai," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9569, The World Bank.
  8. Mori, Yuko & Manjula, R. & Rajasekhar, D. & Goto, Jun & Kurosaki, Takashi, 2025. "Who becomes a politician in a gender quota system? Evidence from India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 188(C).
  9. Deininger,Klaus W. & Jin,Songqing & Nagarajan,Hari Krishnan & Singh,Sudhir K., 2020. "Political Reservation and Female Labor Force Participation in Rural India," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9350, The World Bank.
  10. Garima Sahai, 2024. "Do job aspirations cause job choice? Insights from women entering male‐dominated occupational training in India," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 42(2), March.
  11. Arpita Chakraborty & Rajib Sutradhar, 2023. "Unpaid Work by Women: A State-level Analysis of Evidence from Time-use Survey," Indian Journal of Human Development, , vol. 17(3), pages 461-476, December.
  12. S Anukriti & Sungoh Kwon & Nishith Prakash, 2018. "Household Savings and Marriage Payments: Evidence from Dowry in India," Working papers 2018-09, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.
  13. Sedai, Ashish Kumar & Vasudevan, Ramaa & Pena, Anita Alves & Miller, Ray, 2021. "Does reliable electrification reduce gender differences? Evidence from India," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 185(C), pages 580-601.
  14. Alberto Posso & Stephen C. Smith & Lucia Ferrone & UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2019. "Do constraints on women worsen child deprivations? Framework, measurement, and evidence from India," Papers inwopa1045, Innocenti Working Papers.
  15. Merfeld, Joshua D., 2021. "Sectoral Wage Gaps and Gender in Rural India," IZA Discussion Papers 14391, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  16. Fenske, James & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Yuan, Song, 2022. "Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 82(3), pages 875-912, September.
  17. Anukriti, S. & Kwon, Sungoh & Prakash, Nishith, 2022. "Saving for dowry: Evidence from rural India," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 154(C).
  18. Dev, Pritha & Unni, Jeemol, 2024. "Demonetisation and labour force participation in India: The impact of governance and political alignment," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
  19. Leila Gautham, 2022. "It Takes a Village: Childcare and Women's Paid Employment in India," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 48(3), pages 795-828, September.
  20. Teralynn Ludwick & Marie Ishida & Sapna Desai & Ajay Mahal, 2022. "Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence Impacts Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Women in India," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 48(2), pages 505-543, June.
  21. Zahra Siddique, 2022. "Media-Reported Violence and Female Labor Supply," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 70(4), pages 1337-1365.
  22. Deepti Sharma & Hema Swaminathan & Rahul Lahoti, 2024. "Does it matter who you ask for time-use data?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2024-1, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  23. Sonalde Desai & Omkar Joshi, 2019. "The Paradox of Declining Female Work Participation in an Era of Economic Growth," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 62(1), pages 55-71, March.
  24. Lippmann, Quentin & Surana, Khushboo, 2025. "The evolution of partner preferences: Evidence using matrimonial ads from Canada, France, India and the United States," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 233(C).
  25. Saheli Bose, 2023. "The penalty of work from home: gender gap in productivity of unorganised manufacturing firms in India," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 60(1), pages 351-369, January.
  26. Siddique, Zahra, 2018. "Violence and Female Labor Supply," IZA Discussion Papers 11874, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  27. repec:osf:osfxxx:wgt2r_v2 is not listed on IDEAS
  28. Shing-Yi Wang, 2019. "The Labor Supply Consequences of Having a Boy in China," NBER Working Papers 26185, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  29. Small, Sarah F. & van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana, 2023. "The gendered effects of investing in physical and social infrastructure," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
  30. Sadhan Kumar Chattopadhyay & Siddhartha Nath & Sreerupa Sengupta, 2023. "Recent Dynamics of Women Labour Force Participation in India," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 66(4), pages 1041-1059, December.
  31. Nabanita Saikia & Nabajit Saikia, 2023. "Change in the Span of Working Life in India: An analysis by Decomposition," Indian Journal of Human Development, , vol. 17(1), pages 96-110, April.
  32. Megan Reed, 2020. "The labor force participation of Indian women before and after widowhood," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 43(24), pages 673-706.
  33. Kanika Mahajan & Nandini S, 2024. "Restart: Women, career breaks and employer response," Working Papers 125, Ashoka University, Department of Economics.
  34. Farzana Afridi & Sisir Debnath & Taryn Dinkelman & Komal Sareen, 2023. "Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women’s Time in Home Production," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 37(2), pages 283-304.
  35. Bhattacharya, Leena & Van Soest, Arthur, 2025. "Education, Patriarchy, and Time Allocations of Married Couples," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1680, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  36. Sugata Bag & Anirban Kar, 2022. "“Made in Heaven, Matched by Parents”: Does Arranged Marriage Restrict Labour Market Autonomy and Participation of Women? Theory and Evidence from India," Working papers 317, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics.
  37. Shrestha, Samyam & Kadam, Aditi & Gaddis, Isis & Javed, Amna, 2024. "Regional Integration and Gendered Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Two Nationwide Highway Networks in India," 2024 Annual Meeting, July 28-30, New Orleans, LA 344057, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
  38. Amalia R. Miller & Kamalini Ramdas & Alp Sungu, 2023. "Browsers Don’t Lie? Gender Differences in the Effects of the Indian COVID-19 Lockdown on Digital Activity and Time Use," NBER Working Papers 31919, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  39. Nelson Kisubi & Babalola Bayowa Teniola & Nakafeero Doreen, 2025. "Statistical Modeling of Factors Affecting the Length of Time for Water Collection among Rural Women in Northern Uganda," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 9(2), pages 4307-4318, February.
  40. Anukriti, S. & Herrera Almanza, Catalina & Hossain, Shahadat & Karra, Mahesh, 2025. "Son Preference and Women’s Mental Health and Well-Being in India," 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO 360992, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
  41. Ashmita Gupta, 2021. "Effect of Trade Liberalization on Gender Inequality: The Case of India," IMF Economic Review, Palgrave Macmillan;International Monetary Fund, vol. 69(4), pages 682-720, December.
  42. Kilic,Talip & Van den Broeck,Goedele & Koolwal,Gayatri B. & Moylan,Heather G., 2020. "Are You Being Asked ? Impacts of Respondent Selection on Measuring Employment," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9152, The World Bank.
  43. Ellina Samantroy, 0. "Women’s Participation in Domestic Duties and Paid Employment in India: The Missing Links," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 0, pages 1-21.
  44. Cledwyn Fernandez & Shabana Mitra & Anjhana Ramesh & Havishaye Puri, 2024. "The States' Narrative on Women's Work in India," Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) Policy Paper 32, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India.
  45. Arun Jose & Meghna Dutta, 2024. "Held back by homes: effects of domestic work on occupational choices of women in India," Indian Economic Review, Springer, vol. 59(2), pages 559-599, December.
  46. Pushpendra Singh & Falguni Pattanaik, 2020. "Unfolding unpaid domestic work in India: women’s constraints, choices, and career," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 6(1), pages 1-13, December.
  47. Erica Field & Rohini Pande & Natalia Rigol & Simone Schaner & Charity Troyer Moore, 2021. "On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 111(7), pages 2342-2375, July.
  48. Borooah, Vani, 2019. "The Labour Market in India," MPRA Paper 101673, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  49. Miguel A. Mascarúa Lara, 2024. "Differences in the labor market by gender and aggregate income," Working Papers 2024-05, Banco de México.
  50. Farzana Afridi & Kanika Mahajan & Nikita Sangwan, 2022. "Employment Guaranteed? Social Protection During a Pandemic," Oxford Open Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 1, pages 1-15.
  51. Li, Nicholas, 2023. "Women’s work in India: Evidence from changes in time use between 1998 and 2019," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
  52. repec:ags:aaea22:344057 is not listed on IDEAS
  53. Tanu Gupta & Digvijay S. Negi, 2021. "Daughter vs. Daughter-in-law: Kinship roles and women's time use in India," Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers 2021-002, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India.
  54. Jain, Ritika & Chatterjee, Tirtha, 2024. "Information and communication technology and female employment in India," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
  55. Erica M. Field & Rohini Pande & Natalia Rigol & Simone G. Schaner & Charity Troyer Moore, 2019. "On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms," NBER Working Papers 26294, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  56. Miguel Angel, 2023. "Differences in the labor market by gender and aggregate income," Sobre México. Revista de Economía, Sobre México. Temas en economía, vol. 1(7), pages 84-114.
  57. Quentin Lippmann & Khushboo Surana, 2022. "The Hierarchy of Partner Preferences," Discussion Papers 22/08, Department of Economics, University of York.
  58. Rosa Abraham & Anand Shrivastava, 2022. "How Comparable are India’s Labour Market Surveys?," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 65(2), pages 321-346, June.
  59. Varsha Gupta, 2021. "Female Employment in India: Tracking Trends During 2005–2019," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 64(3), pages 803-823, September.
  60. Ellina Samantroy, 2020. "Women’s Participation in Domestic Duties and Paid Employment in India: The Missing Links," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 63(2), pages 437-457, June.
  61. Bina Agarwal, 2020. "Labouring for Livelihoods: Gender, Productivity and Collectivity," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 63(1), pages 21-37, March.
  62. Abi Adams & Alison Andrew, 2019. "Preferences and beliefs in the marriage market for young brides," IFS Working Papers W19/05, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
  63. Chiplunkar,Gaurav & Tatjana Kleineberg, 2025. "Gender Barriers, Structural Transformation, and Economic Development," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11083, The World Bank.
  64. Pinelopi Goldberg & Charles Gottlieb & Somik Lall & Meet Mehta & Michael Peters & Aishwarya Lakshimi Ratan, 2025. "The Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI)," CESifo Working Paper Series 12061, CESifo.
  65. Antara Bhattacharyya & Sushil Kr. Haldar, 2020. "Does U Feminisation Work in Female Labour Force Participation Rate? India: A Case Study," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 63(1), pages 143-160, March.
  66. Alison Andrew & Abi Adams, 2022. "Revealed beliefs and the marriage market return to education," IFS Working Papers W22/48, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.