Tyranny of the Household: Investigative Essays on Women's WorkDevaki Jain, Nirmala Banerjee 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 |
Copyright | |