New Generation Sectors: Thus Far and No Further

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New generation sectors have accorded women with a more enabling environment; IT meet at Ajmer, Rajasthan.

Abstract: India’s neo-liberal economies have given impetus to employment of educated urban women in highly technical and well-paid new generation service sectors. However, rather than providing emancipatory spaces for women to reinvent their identities, these sectors actively participate in the (re)constitution of traditional gender roles.

The author is Assistant Professor, Centre for Women's Studies, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal.