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'Bed and Board' in Lieu of Salary: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)

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  • Deepita Chakravarty
  • Ishita Chakravarty

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The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is, domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. [CESS WP 84].

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  • Deepita Chakravarty & Ishita Chakravarty, 2010. "'Bed and Board' in Lieu of Salary: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)," Working Papers id:2457, eSocialSciences.
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    1. Sanghita Bhattacharjee & Bhaskar Goswami, 2020. "Determinants of Empowerment: An Insight from the Study of the Female Domestic Workers," Paradigm, , vol. 24(2), pages 226-238, December.

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    west bengal; age; labour market; women; refugee; population; employment; India; Women; Girl Children; Domestics; Calcutta; post partition; salary; domestic service;
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