Mainstreaming Gender in Social Protection for the Informal Economy

Kabeer, Naila
Mainstreaming Gender in Social Protection for the Informal Economy
London, Commonwealth Secretariat, 2008, ISBN 9780850928402, 411pp
With an emphasis on the informal economy, the book explores the gendered dimension of risk, vulnerability, and insecurity and hence the need for a gender perspective in the design of social-protection measures. The book aims to enhance understanding of the constraints and barriers that confine women to more poorly remunerated, more casual, and more insecure forms of waged and self-employment, and of what this implies for women’s ability to provide for their families and cope with insecurity. It examines and assesses examples of social-protection measures, and stresses the importance of an organised voice for vulnerable and marginalised workers.