Women and Urban Informal Sector

This book is about the socio-economic lives and challenges faced by women in UrbanInformal Sector in a metropolitan city like Mumbai. As per 2001 census 23 per cent ofwomen are in the workforce 94 per cent of the total working women are in Informal Sector.The book centers on primary involvement of women in flower selling business which is nonmanufacturing Informal enterprises owned and managed by women. There is a stronglinkage between the Informal sector and economic security of women. As against the normalperception that women cannot do anything on her own and have to depend on malecounterpart or someone for work and decision making is not the case in Flower sellingbusiness of Informal Sector. This flower selling industry is important compared to otherenterprises in the informal sector because it promotes the spiritual tradition and the industryis dominated largely by uneducated women as per the study. In addition this business isone of the fastest growing business.