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Volume : III, Issue : VIII, September - 2013 An Economic Analysis Of Women In Informal Sector With Special Reference To Nagapattinam District, Tamil Nadu S. Annalakshmi And N. Rajagopal DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : A Woman is identified as a mother, a wife daughter-in-law or a daughter but never as an independent person. To be born as a woman means to inhabit, from early infancy to the last day of life, a psychological world that differs from the world of the man. Much of the exasperation and discrimination in woman's life stems from this fact. The overall picture is one of greater disadvantage for women workers in general and those belonging to unorganized sector in particular. As a matter of fact, the problem of female worker is the index of the status of Indian labour in both organized and unorganized sector. Unorganized or informal sector constitutes a pivotal part of the Indian economy. More than 90 per cent of workforce and about 50 per cent of the national product are accounted for by the informal economy. A high proportion of socially and economically underprivileged sections of society are concentrated in the informal economic activities. Informal employment is generally a larger source of employment for women than for men in the developing world. The informal economy in India employs about 86 per cent of the country's work force and 91 per cent if its women workers .Many of these women workers are primary earners for their families. Their earnings are necessary for sheer survival. Low income women workers, especially in the informal sector form one of the most vulnerable groups in the Indian economy. The reasons for their vulnerability are irregular work, low economic status, little or no bargaining power, lack of control over earnings, need to balance paid work with care for children and homework, little of no access to institutional credit, training and information, and lack of assets. Unequal gender relations play a very important role in defining their insecurities. Given their vulnerable status at home and at work, income generation alone may not improve the socio-economic status of women attached to the informal sector. So women employees in India are faced with lot of challenges than their counterparts in India. Considering the multiple role of women in informal sector the present study is an attempt to explore the significant role and participation of there women in home and farm and non-form occupations, the contribution of female population in the socio-economic development. Particularly in the rural areas, has been vital; in real life they find it to hope both their working front and domestic front. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : S. Annalakshmi And N. Rajagopal, (2013). An Economic Analysis Of Women In Informal Sector With Special Reference To Nagapattinam District, Tamil Nadu. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. VIII, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/3096.pdf References : - Evelyn L.Lehrer and Huston Stokes (1985), “Distribution of Female Occupational Distribution: A Log Linear Probability Analysis”, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 67 : 395 – 404.
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