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Centre for Gender and Labour

Centre for Gender and Labour is a new centre set up at the institute with the objective of addressing and strengthening the understanding of gender issues in the labour market. Gender issues in labour market have occupied an important dimension with the initiation of the structural adjustment programme. Sex based discrimination; marginalisation and segmentation are on the increase with women getting excluded socially, economically and politically. These issues need to be addressed to ensure gender equality in the labour market, which require concerted efforts both at academic and policy levels. The centre is established towards fulfilling this felt need.

The activities of the centre are envisaged to upgrade the status of the institute to a leading institution in the area of research, education, training and advocacy on gender and women labour issues. Further, the centre is visualized to act as an apex repository of documents and data on women labour and as an interactive forum for experts and activists in the field to enhance the understanding of gender and women labour issues. The following themes have been identified as the priority research areas of the Centre.

• Sexual Harassment at work place.

• Perspectives on gender issues in labour market.

• Macro-economic trends and patterns and its gender implications.

• Trends in women’s employment in the emerging areas of urban informal sector.

• Impact of technology on the gendering of occupation in specific sectors.

• Gender sensitivity of existing labour laws.

Completed Projects:

• ILO/US-DOL Project on Decent Employment for Women in India

• Women and Development in India: A Balance Sheet

• Women, Gender and Labour Migration: A study of women migrants in NOIDA

• Domestic service in Delhi: A study of work Arrangement, Service Relations and Agency networks.

• Labour, employers and Gender Issues in EPZs: A case of NOIDA, EPZ

• Migrant women and wage Employment: Exploring issues of work and identity among Health Care Professional in Delhi

On-Going Projects :