Women and Work in India: Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives for Policy

Edited by Alakh N. Sharma (), Aasha Kapur Mehta () and Vandana Upadhyay ()

in India Studies in Business and Economics from Springer

Date: 2026
ISBN: 978-981-95-6103-2
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Understanding Women’s Work in India: Introduction to the Volume

Alakh N. Sharma, Vandana Upadhyay and Aasha Kapur Mehta

Ch 2 Measurement Issues in Estimating Female WPR and in Valuing Their Unpaid Domestic and Caregiving Services

G. C. Manna

Ch 3 Rectifying the Invisibility of Women’s Work: Evidence from a Few Villages and Slums

Aasha Kapur Mehta and Sanjay Pratap

Ch 4 Enhancing Work Participation for Women in Urban India: Insights from a Public Perception Survey

Balwant Singh Mehta

Ch 5 Exploring Women’s Work in Haryana: Conceptual and Methodological Learnings

N. Neetha and Indrani Mazumdar

Ch 6 Gender and Work in Mountain Economies: Results from a Time Use Survey from Across Twelve Himalayan States

Vandana Upadhyay and Kanchan Devi

Ch 7 Capitalist Transition and Gendered Labour: Insights from Hill Economies of Northeast India

Deepak K. Mishra and Sweta Tripathy

Ch 8 Time Use Surveys and Women’s Work: How Successful Indian TUSs are in Measuring Women’s Work

Indira Hirway

Ch 9 Trend and Pattern of Women’s Work in India, 1983–2024

Alakh N. Sharma and Balwant Singh Mehta

Ch 10 Women’s Self-Employment in India: Exploring the Significance of Demand-Side Opportunities

Bidisha Mondal, Sona Mitra, Prakriti Sharma and Aneek Chowdhury

Ch 11 Female Workforce Participation in India: How to Step it up and Increase Their Employment in Non-Agricultural Activities

Bishwanath Goldar and Suresh Aggarwal

Ch 12 Gender Discrimination in Employment in Indian Labour Market: Decomposition by Castes and Religion

Panchanan Das

Ch 13 Caste-Based Differences in Women’s Employment: Continuity and Change

Nisha Srivastava and Rahul Ranjan

Ch 14 Gender Discrimination in Wages and Employment in India: The Care Penalty

Anupama Uppal and Amandeep Kaur

Ch 15 Balancing Universal and Contextual Childcare Needs: Envisioning Gender Responsive Models Beyond “One-Size Fits All”

Sreerupa, Jahnvi Andharia and Tanisha Dasgupta

Ch 16 Bridging the Gap: Policy Strategies and Interventions for Women Platform Workers in India

Anweshaa Ghosh

Ch 17 Rethinking the Gender Gap: Gender Inequality and Monopsony Capitalism

Dev Nathan, S. Rahul, Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee and Govind Kelkar

Ch 18 Gender Differences in Returns to Education Mismatch: Evidence from Urban Labour Market in India

Jeemol Unni and Ravikiran Naik

Ch 19 NEET and the Gendered Labour Market Exclusion of Youth

Ravi Srivastava

Ch 20 Low Female Work Participation and Economic Growth Penalty in India

Jajati Keshari Parida and Akankshya Satapathy

Ch 21 Women’s Work and Public Employment in India

Dipa Sinha

Ch 22 Ensuring Social Protection for Women Workers in India: Policy Perspective and Way Forward

Ellina Samantroy

Ch 23 Poverty, Women and Capability: A Study of the Impact of Kerala’s Kudumbashree System

K. P. Kannan and G. Raveendran

Ch 24 Towards a Policy Agenda for Recognising and Enhancing Women’s Contribution to Work in India

Aasha Kapur Mehta, Alakh N. Sharma and Vandana Upadhyay

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