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Gender and Water: The Indian Context

Gender and Water: The Indian Context

Mononita Kundu Das, Rituparna Das
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781522575108|ISBN10: 1522575103|EISBN13: 9781522575115
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7510-8.ch021
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Das, Mononita Kundu, and Rituparna Das. "Gender and Water: The Indian Context." Gender Economics: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 433-452. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7510-8.ch021

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Das, M. K. & Das, R. (2019). Gender and Water: The Indian Context. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Gender Economics: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (pp. 433-452). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7510-8.ch021

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Das, Mononita Kundu, and Rituparna Das. "Gender and Water: The Indian Context." In Gender Economics: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 433-452. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7510-8.ch021

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Abstract

This chapter examines the welfare implication of wage revisions for two Indian unorganized sector female workers with opposite preference patterns for income and leisure in drought-prone zone. The female workers here face a gender-based wage gap and the inconveniences caused by water shortage adversely affect their effective incomes since females are the major users of water in the family. This chapter also makes a couple of recommendations for policymakers and legislators. It experiments with alternative utility functions in neoclassical microeconomic behavioural model framework.

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