New Generation Sectors: Thus Far and No Further
Published: Jul 30, 2018
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New generation sectors have accorded women with a more enabling environment; IT meet at Ajmer, Rajasthan.
Abstract: India’s neo-liberal economies have given impetus to employment of educated urban women in highly technical and well-paid new generation service sectors. However, rather than providing emancipatory spaces for women to reinvent their identities, these sectors actively participate in the (re)constitution of traditional gender roles.
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