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This chapter traces the growth and importance of the IT sector in India, and its development in Kolkata. It describes the socioeconomic characteristics of the women respondents surveyed, and discusses controversial issues such as gender relations at the workplace, gender differentials in wages, sexual harassment, work–household balance, childcare, leisure hours and the impact of outsourcing restrictions on the agency of women. The chapter discusses our survey findings to illuminate these issues, and repudiates the negative image of the IT sector created by the popular media.
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Based on http://www.indianchamber.org/northeast/ITWestBengal.pdf accessed on 20 October 2012.
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Career plateauing refers to the flattening off of the career growth curve for women after a point, primarily due to pregnancy and childrearing.
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For instance, Jeemol Unni, in a comment on a presentation of an early draft of this work in the Annual Conference of the Indian Labour Economics Association in 2008.
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Husain, Z., Dutta, M. (2014). Nabadiganta: Women Workers in Kolkata’s IT Sector. In: Women in Kolkata’s IT Sector. SpringerBriefs in Sociology. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1593-6_4
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