Changing the Terms of the Discourse

Extracts from ‘Right to Work’: Consultation with Women’s Groups, New Delhi

26 October, 1990

 

(Organised under the auspices of — Institute of Applied Manpower Research, Indian Institute of Public Administration, Institute of Social Studies Trust, Self-Employed Women’s Association).

Right To Work — Women’s Viewpoint

1. The participants raised a number of questions regarding Right to Work.

2. Right to Work should be made central to the entire planning for employment process in the 8th Plan and must have two distinct but inter-related components:

1. A set of policies for strengthening and protecting women’s existing employment;
2. Creation and generation of new employment for women etc.

3. The Starting Point

It was felt that we should start with the ...