The Indian census of 2011 collected for the first time since its inception, sex disaggregated figures on the journey to work along two dimensions- trip lengths and modes of transport. This data was analyzed as part of a doctoral thesis on the mobility of urban working women in smaller cities of India, completed in May 2019. The aim of this paper is to present the census data and illuminate these figures with lived experiences of working women on their journey to work, gathered through primary research in one of the cities studied- Jalandhar in the northern state of Punjab. This approach serves to humanize quantitative data and show how lack of state involvement in solving urban transport problems affects women’s daily lives. The importance ...
The city making and the safety of women have remained a major concern for urban policy makers. With ...
The informal economy is characterised by severe ‘decent work’ deficits that disproportionately impac...
The project devised a new method for assessing women’s work/employment situations through separation...
Starting with the knowledge of overt patriarchal structures and gender norms that affect when, where...
In cities all over the world, growing numbers of women are working or studying further away from hom...
Using an original household survey conducted in Hyderabad and Mumbai that identifies intra-city spat...
In this paper we have attempted to raise an issue which has always concerned feminist scholars- the ...
Since the declaration of the year 1975 as the year of women and that decade as women's decade, sever...
As middle-class Indian women become economically more active, it is worth exploring who is doing the...
Rates of permanent economic migration by women into urban India have been low and falling, in contra...
India is termed as a traditional country with wide diversity in religion, ethnicity, culture and cus...
This volume examines the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in urban India. Employm...
"South Asia including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka encompasses source, transit a...
This article reflects the use of urban space by women in urban informal sectors in the city of Guwah...
AbstractThe Delhi Metro is one of the leading examples of a recent urban mass transit infrastructure...
The city making and the safety of women have remained a major concern for urban policy makers. With ...
The informal economy is characterised by severe ‘decent work’ deficits that disproportionately impac...
The project devised a new method for assessing women’s work/employment situations through separation...
Starting with the knowledge of overt patriarchal structures and gender norms that affect when, where...
In cities all over the world, growing numbers of women are working or studying further away from hom...
Using an original household survey conducted in Hyderabad and Mumbai that identifies intra-city spat...
In this paper we have attempted to raise an issue which has always concerned feminist scholars- the ...
Since the declaration of the year 1975 as the year of women and that decade as women's decade, sever...
As middle-class Indian women become economically more active, it is worth exploring who is doing the...
Rates of permanent economic migration by women into urban India have been low and falling, in contra...
India is termed as a traditional country with wide diversity in religion, ethnicity, culture and cus...
This volume examines the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in urban India. Employm...
"South Asia including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka encompasses source, transit a...
This article reflects the use of urban space by women in urban informal sectors in the city of Guwah...
AbstractThe Delhi Metro is one of the leading examples of a recent urban mass transit infrastructure...
The city making and the safety of women have remained a major concern for urban policy makers. With ...
The informal economy is characterised by severe ‘decent work’ deficits that disproportionately impac...
The project devised a new method for assessing women’s work/employment situations through separation...