TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Bhattacharya, Soham
AU  -  Narayan, Samhitha
AU  - 2024
AU  - Agrawal, Nency
TI  - New Working Poor in Contemporary India: Features of Increased Female Workers
PB  - Economic and Political Weekly
KW  -  Female Workforce Participation
KW  -  Self-employment for Female
KW  -  Women's Representation
KW  - Working Women
N2  - In the context of a recent increase of the female workforce participation rate by 14%, this article explains a few features of working women in contemporary India. More specifically, the period under study (2017-23) is marred with economic disruptions due to COVID-19. Amid such economic distress, this article observes FWPR is primarily increasing because of self-employment of women in India. It is observed that a mere representation in the workforce often blurs the gendered, unpaid, and distressed nature of employment for women in India
UR  - https://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2024_59/26-27/cmlix2627290624nency-agrawal.pdf
ER  -