With Or Without Papers, Indian Beauty Workers Find Work, Freedom In Paris
Indian beauticians occupy a cultural niche in the beauty salons of Paris. This provides vulnerable migrant women an entry into a labour market that is otherwise inhospitable to them
Govt Teaching Jobs: Contractualisation Is Stifling Women’s Aspirations
Job insecurity, random transfers, non-payment of wages, and lack of benefits are hurting contractual teachers, of whom 55% are women
Women’s Collectives Are Pitching Their Own Manifestos To Parties, Candidates
From women belonging to nomadic tribes to cane-cutters, small social and workers’ groups are presenting their charter of demands to politicians and parties contesting the ongoing elections
How Evictions And Resettlement Upend Women’s Working Lives
In Delhi, evictions get you resettlement housing but in areas with little access to job, services or essential facilities. And it is the women who struggle the most with travel and livelihood options
Bribes, Bullying, Sexual Harassment: Why Workers In A Delhi Hospital Want An End To Outsourced Hiring
Striking sanitation workers in Delhi’s Burari Hospital have accused private hiring companies of corrupt practices and sexual harassment
Assam’s Family Size Norm For New Initiative Could Hit Its Marginalised Women Most
Linking economic welfare schemes for women to their family size will further limit women’s participation in work and increase their vulnerabilities, argue experts
How ASHA Workers’ Overwhelming Workload Impacts India’s Healthcare System
The relentless cycle of field and paperwork is affecting their mental health, leaving them prone to errors
Why Maharashtra’s Anganwadi Workers Stir Is Spiralling Into A Livelihood Crisis
Faced with termination and loss of salary, striking Anganwadi workers in the state are living in fear and anxiety
Their Roles Ambiguous, ASHA Workers Fight For The Right To Contest Elections
There is state pressure to dissuade frontline health workers from fighting for political office even though they are still hired as ‘honorary volunteers’
Why The Digital Dream Soured Quickly For Anganwadi Workers
Anganwadi workers says their role has gone from deliverers of schemes to being data collectors for the government
Kabaddi Means More Than A Game For Women Wage Workers Of Rural Maharashtra
A unique sports event gives women from poor homes the chance to defy gender norms and find sisterhood in play
In Delhi’s Illegal Factories, Hazards, Precarity Are Every Day Challenges For Women Workers
The recent industrial fire at an electronic assembly unit of Cofe Impex Pvt Ltd in west Delhi’s Mundka village has exposed the social and economic precarity […]
Chhattisgarh Government Is Taking Back Covid Incentives Paid To Mitanins
Usha Sahu, 45, a Mitanin trainer from Bemetara district in central Chhattisgarh was in for a shock when she checked her bank account in October. The […]
How Garment Factories Forced Illegal Resignations Of Women Workers In Karnataka
As Karnataka begins to ease state-wide restrictions imposed since May 10, 2021 to control the spread of COVID-19 virus, industries have been allowed to function with […]
In Poll-Bound Tamil Nadu, Labour Rights Of Women Workers Flouted
S. Rathinam (39) had escaped death by a whisker that afternoon. On February 13, 2021, she, along with hundreds of others, had to run for their […]
