WOMEN IN UNORGANIZED INDUSTRY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT _ ISSUES AND FUTURE

Abstract

India is a country of diversity in religions, customs and culture.  An integral entity to all these diversification is gender perspective. With the globalization and economic development position of women in society has been undoubtedly changed in progressive way. But still on the other side majority of women are employed in unorganized sectors for survival of them and their families. Sustainable development is an action plan which shows ability to meet requirement of future generations without compromising the needs of present generations. The position of women in society now a days itself has divided into two different categories, where some of the women working in organized industry has privileged with many facilities in their professional career still there so many women working in unorganized sectors and not getting benefited by all the laws and policies. Female workers form the largest segment of India’s unorganized workforce. Majority of women work in unorganized sectors for low wages due to low level of skills, illiteracy, ignorance and surplus labour and thus face high level of exploitation. The social and economic profile of female worker is greatly affected by the nature of industrial sector where they work. This paper mainly focus on to

1. To define the different categories of women workers in India.
2. To analyze the problem faced by women workers in unorganized sector.
3. To identify legal framework available for unorganised industries.
4. To analyse sustainable development goals and its implementation on gender perspective.
5. To suggest measures for overcoming the problems of women workers in unorganized sector.