Participation of the Women Workers in the Construction sector in India: A Review

Construction sector plays a crucial role for providing employment for women workers in India. Women, therefore, belong to the secondary labour market sector as their characteristic is poor earning and low level earnings and low level of skills. Since 1971 to till now share of women workers gradually increasing and construction sector absorbing unskilled labour. Women construction workers growth has been large than male construction workers. Mainly women construction workers were involve in secondary (unskilled) work like weight lifter, dust lifter, digging worker and brick handling in public and private sector in India. Public sector provides more employment for women workers than private sector and public sector growth has been large. However, participation of the women workers was based on unskilled and semi-skilled work in the construction sector.