Unseen Workers
Episode 5: Unseen Workers
For our fifth episode of FAS Young Scholars Corner, we spoke to R. Vijayamba, a PhD student at the Indian Statistical Institute (Bangalore) about the critical and often unseen role rural women play in India’s livestock economy.
Unseen Workers
Episode 5: Unseen Workers
For our fifth episode of FAS Young Scholars Corner, we spoke to R. Vijayamba, a PhD student at the Indian Statistical Institute (Bangalore) about the critical and often unseen role rural women play in India’s livestock economy.
Reading List:
1. Understanding Women’s Work Using Time-Use Statistics: The Case of India – Indira Hirway and Sunny Jose.
2. Women’s Role in the Livestock Economy – Madhura Swaminathan and Yoshifumi Usami.
3. Gender and Livestock: Key Issues, Challenges and Opportunities – Jemimah Njuki and Pascal Sanginga
4. Gender Asset and Wealth Gaps: Evidence from Karnataka – Hema Swaminathan, Rahul Lahoti, Suchitra J. Y.
5. The Female of the Species: Women and Dairying in India – Shanti George.
Sudha is an Administrative Assistant of the Foundation. She assists the administrative division of the Foundation and also has taken part in fieldwork organised by the Foundation.
