Ashwini Deshpande on Gender and Caste Discrimination and Affirmative Action in India
Ideas of India
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The Supply Side of Women's Labor Supply Not Being Forthcoming
In rural areas other than agriculture for women, avenues of employment are practically non existent. Nodalit women and atheasy women get particularly hit because when they they are not, their families don't own as much farm land as upper cast families would do. So technological change disproportionately disadvantaged women in rural india exactly at the time when you see a decline in rural female labor force participation rate. And we don't find a correlation between sexual violence against women and their labor force participation treats. Not in India, nowhere else.
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