Resilience of gender inequities - Women and employment in Chennai

policies to increase women's wage employment often choose to take the easy way out by facilitating the setting up of industries that are seen to be co mpatible with women's household responsibilities rather than address the co nstraints that force women to, in fact, work in so-called women's work. Thi s paper attempts to map the diffused manner in which wage earning-women wor kers experience oppression which is the outcome of the interplay of both pa triarchal structures and capitalist relations of production. The location o f the study is Ambattur in Chennai, one of the oldest industrial belts in T amil Nadu.