This book examines the discourse of South Asian women’s work and employment trends through the lens of rights and innovations. It has 13 chapters. The contributors take a broad geographical canvas and diverse thematic areas to study how various changes in their work sectors influence women’s rights, and how women innovate and adopt innovative ways to steer through their personal and professional lives. Reflecting on women’s lives and work experiences from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan, the studies also demonstrate the renewed demands for implementing a right based framework due to excelled automation in the industries and different work sectors. Findings reveal the precarious conditions in formal and informal sectors that had often neglected equitable outcomes for women workers coming from the plains and the hills, rural and urban areas, and pursuing migratory journeys at home and abroad. The book generates a set of policy lessons for the State, private sector, non-profits, and international development partners.
Contents
List of Tables, Figures, and Charts
Foreword by Anuradha Chenoy
Acknowledgement
Editors and Contributors


Introduction
1 Gendered Notions of Unpaid Care Work in Rural Bangladesh: Recognising, Sharing, and Envisioning Probable Trajectories
Meghna Guhathakurta

2 Gender and Care Work: Working Experience of Women in Nepal
Bindu Pokharel

3 The Journey of Home-Based Women Workers in Pakistan: From Isolation to Trade Unionism
Saba Gul Khattak

4 Women in Domestic Sector in West Bengal: Is There a Future after Pandemic?
Paula Banerjee

5 Trafficked Women: Marginalisation, Vulnerabilities, and Legality
Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

6 Indigenous Women’s Work and Possibilities in the Age of Globalisation
Ilira Dewan

7 Women, Work and Environment on the Fringe and Frontline of Bangladesh
Philip Gain

8 Adapting to Impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Strategies of the Fabulous Females
Syed Jamil Ahmed


9 Images of Working Women in Advertising: A Long Road Ahead in India
Madhupa Bakshi and Agnijita Mukherjee

10 The Indian Women Migrant Labour Force: A Contemporary Review
Sreeradha Datta

11 Migrating beyond Boundaries: Internal and International Women Workers of Bangladesh
Syeda Rozana Rashid

12 Women in Work: A Review of Formal Policy Regimes in Bangladesh
Marufa Akter

13 Women and the Future of Work in Bangladesh: A Critical Review
Fahmida Khatun and Nudrat Faria Shreya

Conclusion: Untangling the Discourse of Women and Work
Index