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Women in Kolkata’s IT Sector

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Sociology Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1593-6

ISBN: 978-81-322-1592-9

Publisher: Springer India - Springer Journals

Dec 31, 2013

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Chapter 1Women, Work and Agency: An Introduction

Husain, Zakir; Dutta, Mousumi

Pages: 1 –19

[This chapter sets the tone of the book by laying out its conceptual framework, the context of the study and the issue to be examined. It defines empowerment, examines different empirical approaches to measure empowerment—particularly Amartya Sen’s capability approach—and contrasts empowerment...
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Chapter 2Women, Work and Exploitation: A Binary Perspective

Husain, Zakir; Dutta, Mousumi

Pages: 21 –48

[In developing countries, policy makers commonly argue that involving women in paid economic activities is possibly the ‘best’ way of integrating women in development. This argument ignores the fact that the relations through which women are incorporated into the development process is crucial to...
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Chapter 3Women and Work: Towards an Alternative Approach

Husain, Zakir; Dutta, Mousumi

Pages: 49 –73

[This chapter argues that the pessimistic conclusions of the Marxist school of writers were leading feminism towards a dead end. It identifies the shortcomings of the Marxist feminist writers, and reviews the newly emerging body of feminist work, which explores how marginalised women adopt means...
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Chapter 4Nabadiganta: Women Workers in Kolkata’s IT Sector

Husain, Zakir; Dutta, Mousumi

Pages: 75 –96

[This chapter traces the growth and importance of the IT sector in India, and its development in Kolkata. It describes the socioeconomic characteristics of the women respondents surveyed, and discusses controversial issues such as gender relations at the workplace, gender differentials in wages,...
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Chapter 5Agency and Satisficing in Kolkata’s IT Sector

Husain, Zakir; Dutta, Mousumi

Pages: 97 –119

[This chapter applies the ‘satisficing’ framework (described in Chap. 3) to women workers in Kolkata’s IT sector. It examines the economic and sociocultural changes shaping the constraints that define which outcomes are satisfactory, and analyses the behavioural patterns of respondents to show—by...
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Chapter 6Work, Satisficing and Agency

Husain, Zakir; Dutta, Mousumi

Pages: 121 –129

[The final chapter summarises the main findings of the study and critically examines the genuineness of the empowerment claimed by the respondents.]

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