Tag Archives: occupational health

Dr. Sukanya: Women, Work and their Health

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Prayas
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by Dr. Sukanya Most of women’s work is invisible and not recognized due to the nature of their informal work – in the domestic sector, street vending, seasonal and/or unpaid agriculture work, work based in their homes, sex work. Women constitute more than two thirds of the informal sector and work in exploitative conditions, hazardous [...]

 
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Nature of poverty

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Prayas

In the village of Marenahalli Bunde — a settlement of quarry workers supplying Bangalore with stone for its seemingly unceasing building boom — I recently listened to 30-year-old Kayelveli (she uses one name), a third standard dropout, who narrated how she toiled from daybreak to dusk. “It takes a week to bash a truckload of stone,” [...]

 
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