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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Women Participation and Rationing in the Employment Guarantee Scheme -Sudha Narayanan and Upasak Das

Women Participation and Rationing in the Employment Guarantee Scheme -Sudha Narayanan and Upasak Das

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published Published on Nov 15, 2014   modified Modified on Nov 15, 2014
-Economic and Political Weekly

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act that guarantees employment of every rural household for 100 days has different progressive provisions to incentivise participation of women in the programme. Official data suggest that 47% of all MGNREGA workers are women. The extent to which the programme is inclusive of women, with a particular focus on sub-populations of women such as widows and mothers of young children who typically face serious constraints in the context of labour market participation, is examined in this study using data from the National Sample Survey. The study finds that while the MGNREGA has indeed been inclusive of women, the substantial variations both across states and the exclusion of vulnerable groups of women demand attention.

Sudha Narayanan (sudha@igidr.ac.in) and Upasak Das (upasakdas@igidr.ac.in) are at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai.

The authors are grateful to Kiran Bhatty, Nandini Nayak and an anonymous referee for comments on an earlier draft and to Jean Drèze and Reetika Khera for valuable discussions. The usual disclaimer applies.

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Economic and Political Weekly, Vol-XLIX, No. 46, November 15, 2014, http://www.epw.in/special-articles/women-participation-and-rationing-employment-guarantee-scheme.html


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