Exclusion of Women from Urban Employment in the Neo-liberal Era

What is it about?

The urban expansions in the large metropolitan cities are expected to create all round work opportunities, for both men and women. This paper, however, comes to the conclusion, that though investment and population expansions have been very high in the peri-urban areas of the large metropolitan cities in India, the women in terms of participating in employment are particularly vulnerable in these areas. This paper concludes that a new set of vulnerabilities surround women in new processes of making cities, in which the women get increasingly tied to work burdens in smaller households, insecure job conditions of the men of the household, and lack of availability of regular jobs that suit their conditions.

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Why is it important?

This work analyses the effect of urbanization on employment in three spatial platforms that forms a spatial continuum, the city-core, the peri-urban areas and the rural interiors. In that sense, it provides a sense of geographical impact of neo-liberal processes of urbanization.

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