Volume 9 : Issue 1 (2022)

Women Empowerment Through Unorganized Sector

The female labour force constitutes one third of the rural workers in India. Women workers face series problems and constraints related to work such as lack of continuity, insecurity, wage discrimination, unhealthy job relationship, absence of medical and accident care etc. Underemployment, but in many cases the jobs are low-paid and they face job security. Women’s empowerment (or female empowerment) is the process of empowerment women. It may be defined in several ways, including accepting women’s viewpoint or making an effort to seek them, raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training. In comparison to the organized sector, this sector has not tasted the advantages or benefits of the organization. In defining the unorganized sector, self- employed with or without family labour and micro enterprises with less than five workers, is also included. Unorganized sector or informal sector do not enjoy much privileges of the organized sector especially when it comes to women it fully biased with lots of economic disparities.

Empowerment, Informal women workers, Problems, Unorganized Sector.

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