Name: Madhu Dhawan
Country: India

Year: 2017
Volume: Volume-2, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 27-31

The paper presents an overview of the situation of women workers in unorganised sector of India. Today,unorganised sector constitutes a pivotal part of our economy and covers about half of GDP. Also it has lead to preponderance of unorganised workers which occupies more than 90 per cent of the workforce in it. Undoubtedly, this sector generates employment opportunities for marginalised and vulnerable section for their subsistence but at the same time, it is plagued by several problems such as no service rules, no wage rules, and no possibilities of career advancement. A large proportion of socially and economically underprivileged section of our society i.e. women who constitutes lion’s share but their work often goes unaccounted. The plight of women in this sector is miserable as they mostly do arduous work as wage earners, piece rate workers, casual labourer with extremely low wages, no fixed working hours and hardly drive any benefits.
Key words: unorganised sector, women workers, plight of women, etc.