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History of women’s wages and work

History of women’s wages and work

What comes to your mind when you think of women’s work in the last 100 years? Maybe reproductive labour, Women and Labour in Late Colo

Sneha Khatri

Apr 20, 2024

What comes to your mind when you think of women’s work in the last 100 years? Maybe reproductive labour, Women and Labour in Late Colo

The occupational choices of those young women who did work were severely circumscribed.

We should be looking at women’s work through questions of gender, class, caste and sexuality

As Samita Sen discusses, gender ideologies emphasised the value of domesticity and motherhood, thus undermining women's capacity to earn a living. Even when women had access to paid work, they were likely to be concentrated in ill-paid jobs since they were supposed to be 'unskilled labour'.