Tyranny of the Household: Investigative Essays on Women's Work

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Devaki Jain, Nirmala Banerjee
Shakti Books, 1985 - Business & Economics - 278 pages
Essays on sex discrimination against low income women and woman workers in household nutrition, work load and family budget, in India and Bangladesh - covers malnutrition among rural area girls and working mothers, standard of living in female headed households, the labour force participation of female agricultural workers, the impact of traditional attitudes on the division of labour the social status and economic role of women's work at home and homemaker tasks, etc; discusses economic evaluation of women`s contribution.

Contents

Malnutrition of Rural Children and the Sex Bias
15
Maternal Nutrition in Rural Bangladesh
25
The Energy Health
38
Their
50
Womens Work and Employment Belonging
87
A Micro Study in Karnataka
110
Women Agricultural LabourersRegional Variations
125
Womens Work and Discrimination
146
On the Issue of Underenumeration of Womens
195
Report on a Field Survey
215
Countributions to and Use of Social Product
258
Index
275
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