Anweshaa GhoshInstitute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi
Anweshaa Ghosh
M.Phil, Women's Studies
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Introduction
I am a feminist social scientist working in the field of women and work for over 10 years. Currently a Research fellow with ISST, I have expertise in qualitative research methodologies and have led and been part id several national and international research studies around women's work in India and the South Asian region. My interest areas include women and work, specifically but not limited to domestic work, unpaid care work, platform economy, skilling and gender transformative evaluations.
Publications
Publications (17)
Using the feminist lens of women economic empowerment and the concepts of resources, agency, and achievements, and the inter-related concepts of power, this article shares the experience of women beauty workers and women cab drivers working on different types of platform models in India. While beauty work is essentially a feminised sector of work i...
While post-Fordism and neo-liberalism changed the way labour was viewed, technology and wide spread digitization has built upon the same principles, giving way to a new form of work – the Gig Economy. Over the last decade, ‘on-demand’ work guided by app-based platforms such as Uber, Ola, Urban Company, Zomato, etc. have become fairly common in urba...
Development evaluations take place within social hierarchies and can both reflect and challenge these hierarchies. In this discussion paper the authors reflect on their experiences in facilitating gender transformative evaluations in the development sector from India and a few other developing countries, and argue that such evaluations entail weavi...
Domestic work is a highly feminized sector of work in Bangladesh, where women from poor neighborhoods of Dhaka city are found laboring for very low wages, without legal or social protection. Such work remains unrecognized and invisible, although it has been done for generations. Over the years, mobilization of domestic workers (DWs) by the National...
This is a Hindi Policy brief on Inclusion of Gender in the Gig Economy in India
This is a Policy Brief - Engendering the gig economy in India based on the exploratory study on women workers in the gig economy in India
This study was conducted with women workers and other key informants in the four sectors in the gig economy: domestic work, beauty work, cab service and food delivery. The study was conducted across Delhi-NCR, Bangalore and Mumbai
Employment and work surveys in Nepal have shown a high concentration of women in certain occupations, being flexible, low paid and requiring low skill. In the far-western region (Jumla District, Karnali Zone), the Government of Nepal provides employment to women and men through a public works programme, the Karnali Employment Programme (KEP). This...
This note examines the KEP programme’s potential to achieve women’s economic empowerment that generates
a ‘double boon’ – paid work that empowers women and provides more support for their unpaid care work
responsibilities.
This note examines Oxfam Nepal’s EDP programme to understand how women’s economic empowerment
(WEE) policy and programming can generate a ‘double boon’ – paid work that empowers women and provides
more support for their unpaid care work responsibilities
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This research seeks to address the question of when and why the state in India responds to women’s claims making by foregrounding the mobilisations of women’s groups on two issues: anti-rape laws and domestic work. In particular, it analyses the relationship between women’s claims making and laws and policies, especially focusing on the issues arou...
Projects
Projects (5)
The qualitative research project, ‘Sustaining Power: Women’s struggles against backlash in contemporary South Asia’ (SuPWR), is a five year project starting May 2019, that seeks to understand the strategies and processes of women's movements in South Asia in the face of backlash from regressive social, political and economic forces.
The central question for this research is, 'When, how, and why do women’s power struggles succeed in retaining power and sustaining their gains against backlash and counter attacks?'' For this, specific women's movements in the domain of family, community, market, and the state will be identified in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal respectively and studied through longitudinal work and gendered political economy analysis to be able to capture normative and institutional change processes that the women's movements undergo. ISST along with IDS, Sussex will be leading the India chapter under this project. The research is funded by the Economic Social Research Council (ESRC), United Kingdom.
The project looks at women in the platform economy in four main sectors: Domestic Work, Beauty Work, Cab Drivers and Delivery Girls in Delhi NCR, Bangalore and Mumbai
