Women's Unpaid Labour in Neo-Liberal India

Abstract

This paper explores trends in women's unpaid labour across the national employment surveys of 1993-1994, 1999-2000 and 2004. It argues that unpaid labour by women in production constitutes an important element in understanding how restricted employment opportunities have affected women across the period of neo4iberal reforms in India. It shows how employment trends and patterns in recent times appear to have thrown up many socially regressive trends in the sphere of women's work.