A large number of women work as paid domestic workers. This sector of women`s employment has not received much activist or academic attention. Domestic workers, or `servants`, are a popular topic of private conversations but do not figure much in public discourse; this invisibility in public discourse and action has to be confronted.
Read MoreSEWA–Kerala was registered in 1986 and its members affiliated to the National SEWA Trade Union in 1990. Subsequently, it was registered as a trade union in Kerala in 2008,
Read MoreNirmala Niketan was formed in 1998 by the tribal girls of Jharkhand, working as full-time, in-house domestic workers in Delhi.
Read MoreAstitva is a community based, working women`s organisation in Dehradun that strives to empower and enable women workers from poor socio-economic areas to access better-paid work and, thereby, have increased control over their lives.
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