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Explain the emerging challenges in establishing gender equality in the informal sector.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Works and Economic Life

The informal sector has always disadvantaged women through low wages, invisibility and the absence of protection. The emerging challenges are different in kind. They arise from digitalisation, climate stress and new policies that promise inclusion but often reproduce older inequalities. Guy Standing's The Precariat (2011) captures the wider trend: insecurity is spreading, and women are…

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