MGSE-9 EM 2025-26 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

Description

MGSE 009: Gender Issues in Work, Employment and Productivity
Assignment (TMA)
Course Code: MGSE 009
Assignment Code: MGSE 009/ AST/2025-26

Note: Answer all the questions. While questions in Section A carry 20 marks each (to be answered in about 700 words each), those in Section B carry 12 marks each (to be answered in about 500 words each).

Section-A

1. Gender discrimination includes behaviours occurring in the workplace that limit the target person‘s ability to enter, remain in, succeed in, or progress in a job and that are primarily the result of the target person’s gender. – Comment on the statement
2. Discuss issues related to the under-enumeration of women’s work in the Indian Data collection system.

Section B

3. Why do we need social protection for women workers in the informal sector? Justify your answers with suitable examples drawn from the course material.
4. Explain the Traditionalist approach related to wage differentials and modern economists’ views on wage differentials.
5. Explain theories related to Labour Market discrimination and Exploitation.
6. Explain the role of the Care Economy in the national economy
7. Write short notes on the following:
8. ix) Imperfect Labour Market Information
9. x) Gender-related Development Index- Inter-State Profile of India
10. xi) Valuation of Women’s Work

xii)  Visible and Invisible Work