{"id":283,"date":"2016-09-20T08:09:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T08:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cwds.ac.in\/?page_id=283"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:58:07","slug":"neetha-n","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty-and-researchers\/neetha-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Neetha N."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4518 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/backupp.com\/cwds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/neetha-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" \/>Contact: neetha@cwds.ac.in<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Education<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>PhD (Economics) &#8211; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2004.<\/li>\n<li>MPhil (Applied Economics); Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1994.<\/li>\n<li>MA (Economics); Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, 1992.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She was Associate Fellow &amp; Coordinator, Centre for Gender and Labour at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA during 1998-2006. Her research interests are labour and employment issues of women, domestic workers, labour migration and gender statistics and data gaps.<\/p>\n<h4>Publications<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(co-editor with S. Irudaya Rajan) <em>Migration, Gender and Care Economy<\/em>, Routledge, London (forthcoming, 2018).<\/li>\n<li><em>Working at Others Homes: The Specifics and Challenges of Paid Domestic Work<\/em>, (ed.), Tulika Books, New Delhi (forthcoming, 2018).<\/li>\n<li><em>Institutional Choice in Irrigation: A study of distribution in a canal command in Kerala<\/em> (2009), Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li><em>Decent Work: A Handbook<\/em> (with Sasikumar and Babu P. Remesh), V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA, 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Journal Guest Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00b7\u00a0 Special Issue on Domestic Work, <em>Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Women Studies<\/em>, Vol &#8211; XLVIII No. 43, October 26, 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Monographs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(with Dimple Tresa Abraham) MGNREGA:\u00a0 Asset Creation and Rural Development: An Evaluation of Category B Assets in Selected States, Centre for Women\u2019s Development Studies, Mimeo,\u00a0 New Delhi, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Approaching Data Sources: A Gender Lens, Centre for Women\u2019s Development Studies, Mimeo, New Delhi, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>(with Indu Agnihotri and Indrani Mazumdar) Gender and Migration: Negotiating Rights \u2013 A Women\u2019s Movement Perspective, Key Findings CWDS, 2012.<\/li>\n<li>(with Indrani Mazumdar), Conditions and Needs of Women Workers in Delhi,\u00a0 Delhi Commission of Women &amp; Centre for Women\u2019s Development Studies, Mimeo,\u00a0 New Delhi, 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Working Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minimum wage setting practices in domestic work : an inter -state analysis , Conditions of work and employment series \u2013 No. 66,\u00a0 International Labour Office, Inclusive Labour Markets, Labour Relations and Working Conditions Branch.- Geneva: ILO, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Inequalities Reinforced? Social Groups, Gender and Employment,\u00a0 Occasional Paper No.59, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>(with Indrani Mazumdar) Gender Dimensions: Employment Trends in India 1993-94 to 2009-10, Occasional Paper No. 56, Centre for Women\u2019s Development Studies, New Delhi, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Women\u2019s Work in the Post Reform Period:\u00a0 An exploration of macro data\u2019, Occasional Paper No. 52, CWDS, New Delhi, 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Articles and Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Language of Employment Contract: Paid Domestic work Practices and Relations, in <em>Understanding Labour Market Institutions, Processes and Policies in the Globalising India<\/em>, Shyam Sundar, ed,\u00a0 Palgrave Macmillan.<\/li>\n<li>Social Groups, Gender and Employment in \u00a0\u201c<em>Women in the Worlds of Labour:\u00a0 Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Perspectives,\u00a0<\/em> Orient Blackswan.<\/li>\n<li>(co-author) Pluralization of Families in \u2018<em>Rethinking<\/em>\u00a0<em>Society for the 21st Century\u2019<\/em> edited by International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP), Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Exploring Paid and Unpaid Work Dichotomy in a Labour-Care Perspective in <em>Labouring Women: Issues and Challenges in Contemporary India<\/em>, Orient Black Swan, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Tracking Gender Inequality through Statistics, <em>Status and Gaps in Social Statistics in India<\/em>, Primus Books, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Family Policy in India: Contradictions, Continuities and Change, (with Rajni Palriwala) in Gu\u00f0n\u00fd Bj\u00f6rk Eydal and Tine Rostgaard (ed.) <em>Handbook on Child and Family Policy<\/em>, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>National Policy for Women 2016, <em>Kurukshetra <\/em>(Special issue on Empowering Women), Volume 66, No.3, January 2018.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWomen\u2019s Employment: Hoping Against Hope\u201d, <em>Yojana<\/em>, Special issue on Labour Welfare, April, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring Gender Justice in Labour, <em>Yojana<\/em> (Special Issue on Labour with Dignity), Vol. 84, April, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Employees\u2019 State Insurance Scheme for Domestic Workers : Yet Another Mockery, Vol. 52, Issue No. 11, 18 March, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Urban Housekeepers from tribal lands: Adivasi women migrants and domestic work on Delhi in <em>Citizens First: Studies on Tribal, Adivasi and Indigenous Peoples of India<\/em>, edited by Meena Radhakrishnan, Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Persistent Inequalities and Deepened Burden of Work? An Analysis of Women\u2019s Employment in Delhi, in <em>Women Workers in Urban India<\/em>, edited by Saraswati Raju and Santosh Jatrana, Cambridge University\u00a0 Press, London, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Shifting Accountability? Reading the Budget from Women\u2019s Perspective, <em>Yojana<\/em> (Special Issue on Union Budget 2015-16), Vol. 59, March (2015).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cConfined to the Margins: Female Migrant Workers in Urban Areas\u201d in <em>India Migration Report 2015: Gender and Migration<\/em> edited by S Irudaya Rajan, Routledge, India, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Female Migrants in Paid Domestic Work, <em>Yojana<\/em>, Planning Commission, Volume 58, October 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Crisis in Female Employment: Analysis across Social Groups, <em>Economic and Political Weekly<\/em>, Vol \u2013 XLIX No. 47, November 22, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Paid Domestic Work: Making Sense of the Jigsaw Puzzle, <em>Economic and Political Weekly<\/em>, Review of Women Studies, Vol \u2013 XLVIII, No. 43, October 26, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Minimum Wages for Domestic Work: Mirroring Devalued Housework, <em>Economic and Political Weekly<\/em>, Review of Women Studies, Vol \u2013 XLVIII No. 43, October 26, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>(with Indrani Mazumdar and Indu Agnihotri) Migration and Gender in India; <em>Economic and Political Weekly<\/em>, Vol \u2013 XLVIII No. 10, March 09, 2013.<\/li>\n<li>(with Rajni Palriwala) Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India Through the Lens of Child care, in <em>Seen, Heard and Counted: Rethinking Care in a Development Context<\/em> edited by Shahra Razavi, Willey- Blackwell publishing Ltd. UK, 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Migration of Women and Domestic Work, in Rajan Irudaya (ed) <em>Migration, Identity and Conflict, India Migration Report<\/em> 2011, Routledge, New York, 2011<\/li>\n<li>(with Rajni Palriwala), Why the absence of Law? Domestic Workers in India, <em>Canadian Journal of Women and the Law<\/em>, Special Issue on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, Volume 23, No. 1, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Gender, employment and poverty in rural India \u2013 Neglected Terrains, <em>Report on Science and Technology in India<\/em>, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>(with Rajni Palriwala) The Political and Social Economy of Care in India, in Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab (ed), <em>Political and Social Economy of Care<\/em>, Routledge, New York, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Changing Dimensions of Women\u2019s Work and Gender Inequality in the Post \u2013 Reform Period in K. Trivedi edited, <em>The Globalisation Turbulence: Emerging Tensions in Indian Society<\/em>, Rawat Publications, Jaipur , 2011.<\/li>\n<li>(with Rajni Palriwala), Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India through the Lens of Child Care, <em>Development and Change<\/em>, Volume 12, Number 4, July 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Female Employment in Agriculture: Patterns and Trends in the Post Reform Period in <em>Agriculture for Inclusive Growth<\/em> edited by Suresh Pal, Indian Agricultural Research Institute , New Delhi, 2011<\/li>\n<li>(with Indrani Mazumdar), Gender Dimensions: Employment Trends in India 1993-94 to 2009-10, , <em>Economic and Political Weekly<\/em>, October 22, 2011, Vol. XLVI, No.43.<\/li>\n<li>Self-Employment of Women: Preference or Compulsion? <em>Social Change<\/em>, Volume 40, No.2, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>(with Rajni Palriwala), Unpaid Care Work: Analysis of the Indian Time Use Data, in Debbie Buddlender ed. <em>Time Use Studies and Care Work<\/em>, Routledge, New York, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>(with Rajni Palriwala), Care practices and care bargains: Paid Domestic Workers and Anganwadi Workers in India, <em>International Labour Review<\/em>, International Labour Organisation, Vol. 149, No.4, 2010 December.<\/li>\n<li>Estimating Unpaid Care Work: Methodological Issues in Time Use Surveys, Review of Women\u2019s Studies, <em>Economic and Political Weekly<\/em>, October 30, 2010, Vol. XLV, No.44.<\/li>\n<li>Report on Employment: A Bird\u2019s Eye View or an Eyewash? <em>Economic and Political Weekly<\/em>, September 18, 2010, Vol. XLV, No.38.<\/li>\n<li>Women and Care Work: Alternatives from India, Special issue on \u2018Sustaining Local Economies\u2019, <em>Development<\/em>, Volume 53 No. 3, September 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Dynamics of Women\u2019s Employment in the Era of Globalization: Signs of Segregation or Integration? in <em>Women\u2019s Situations and Women\u2019s Studies: A South Asian Perspective<\/em>, edited by Sanchari Roy Mukherjee, Sarat Book Distributor, Kolkata 2010.<\/li>\n<li>The Case for Social Policies on Care Work, <em>In Search Of Economic Alternatives for Gender and Social Justice: Voices from India,<\/em> edited By Christa Wichterich, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Wide, Brussels, Belgium, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Changing Dimensions of Female Employment in India: Insights from NSSO Data, <em>Labour and Development<\/em>, Vol. 14-15, No.1&amp; 2, June 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Rethinking Child care in the Changing socio-Economic and political Scenario, in Undoing our future: Report on the Status of Young Children in India, Forum for Creche and child care services, New Delhi, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Contours of Domestic Service: Characteristics, Work Relations and Regulations, <em>Indian Journal of Labour Economics<\/em>, Vol.52, No. 3, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>`Feminisation or Segregation? Insights from a Disaggregate analysis of NSSO Data\u2019 in <em>Gender Issues in Development: Concerns for the 21st Century <\/em>ed. \u00a0Bhaswati Das and Vimal Khawas, Rawat Publications, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>`Changing Dimensions of Unemployment in India during the Post Reform Period\u2019 in <em>The Indian Economy since 1991: Economic Reforms and Performance<\/em>, Edited by Prakash, B.A., Pearson Education, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>(co-authored with Babu P. Remesh), Gender Implications of Outsourced Work in the New Economy: A Case Study of Domestic Call Centres, <em>The Indian Journal of Labour Economics<\/em>, Volume 51, No. 4, Oct.-Dec. 2008.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Regulating Domestic Work, Commentary, <em>Economic and Political Weekly<\/em>, Vol. 43, No. 37, September 13-19, 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: neetha@cwds.ac.in Education PhD (Economics) &#8211; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2004. MPhil (Applied Economics); Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1994. MA (Economics); Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, 1992. 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