Liberalisation and gender discrimination in informal sector

During the phase of globalisation, opportunities for the women to be economically independent have considerably grown though the opportunities may vary. The paper attempts to explore the level of gender discrimination among various types of enterprises in unorganised manufacturing sector of India after economic reforms. The results shows that during the last two decades though the work participation of women has increased, yet they are largely being placed in low paid, insecure and informal jobs, while the better paid supervisory and managerial jobs are reserved for men. Yet, it remains far from being equal. So, it would be quite relevant here to observe how various types of jobs in unorganised manufacturing sector of India have been distributed among men and women.