Dutta, Diya

India’s female labour force participation has followed a paradoxical, non-linear path rather than a steady climb. The female Worker Population Ratio (WPR) peaked at 29.7% in 1977-78, then declined steadily through subsequent decades, with sharp drops in 1999-2000 and 2009-10, bottoming out at a historic low of 16.5% in 2017-18 — coinciding with record national […]

The study documents the incidence of domestic and workplace violence among Indian female agricultural workers, and the factors that put these women at risk of violence. Multiple years of nationally representative domestic violence data are analyzed, focusing on agricultural laborers. This analysis is supplemented by a literature review on working conditions for female tea plantation […]