"This book is an outcome of an extensive empirical research undertaken by the author based on the field work on rural women in Informal Sector. Since the topic is related to women exploitation due to illiteracy and ignorant. Women have been the most underprivileged and discriminated strata of the society not only in India but the world over. In spite of all Government and Non-Governments' efforts, they have been highly ignorant clients of the informal sector. The author enriches the analysis with examples citing available information of the rural working women. The author had to put intensive efforts to collect the reliable sources from various governmental agencies and other non-governmental agencies pertaining to women vulnerability in the informal sectors.

This book envisaged the miserable conditions of women in informal sectors and is organized into six chapters; each chapter is focused on various issues pertaining to rural women in informal sector, specially socio-economic conditions of women, snap shot of informal sector, knowledge review of various informal sector issues, area profile of the informal sector, base live survey of informal sector and analysis and finally it had discussed conclusion and policy suggestions in order to strengthen the informal sector. This book will be a blueprint for all academia, civil society, NGOs, researchers in all fields of social science research for policy decision making." 
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