Women s Paid Domestic Work and Rural Transformation-A Study in South Gujarat

The organisation of domestic work articulates not only gender differences and inequalities within and between households but also those of class and caste. This study examines the ways in which these class, caste and gender relations are constructed, reinforced and negotiated in an activity which cuts across the dichotomies of paid and unpaid, reproductive and productive and the household and the market to distinguish domestic work from other forms of employment.