Wives and Widows at Work: Women's Labour in Agrarian Bengal, Then and Now

Bys: Chakravarty, Deepita and Chakravarty, Ishita

History seems to stand still in Bengal, a province which once played a pioneering role in the nineteenth-century social reform movement. For over a century now, in spite of the drastic politico-economic changes and social upheavals that Bengal has witnessed, important indicators of women's well-being continue to display alarming trends in the region. Colonial censuses as well as recent data indicate low work participation rates of women, along with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CHFFNQ9V
• ISBN13: 9789354424458
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: United Nations
• Length: 288 Pages