Caste, Kinship, and Life Course: Rethinking Women's Work and Agency in Rural South India
基于2009年泰米尔纳德邦的入户调查和深度访谈，质疑将劳动参与作为性别平等路径的优先性，强调需解析工作性质、社会评价及女性能动性在决策中的作用。
This paper reexamines the linkages between women's work, agency, and well-being based on a household survey and in-depth interviews conducted in rural Tamil Nadu in 2009 and questions the prioritization of workforce participation as a path to gender equality. It emphasizes the need to unpack the nature of work performed by and available to women and its social valuation, as well as women's agency, particularly its implications for decision making around financial and nonfinancial household resources in contexts of socioeconomic change. The effects of work participation on agency are mediated by factors like age and stage in the life cycle, reproductive success, and social location – especially of caste – from which women enter the workforce.