Are Caste Categories Misleading? : The Relationship between Gender and Jati in Three Indian States
This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are grouped using conventional, government-defined categories of caste the paper finds patterns that are consistent with existing lit...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/411391498158851891/Are-caste-categories-misleading-the-relationship-between-gender-and-Jati-in-three-Indian-states http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27607 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the relationship
between caste and gender inequality in three states in
India. When households are grouped using conventional,
government-defined categories of caste the paper finds
patterns that are consistent with existing literature:
lower-caste women are more likely to participate in the
labor market, have greater decision-making autonomy within
their households, and experience greater freedom of
movement. When households are grouped by the narrower
sub-caste categories of jati, where caste is lived and
experienced, the paper finds the relationships to be far
more varied and nuanced. These results suggest that
focussing on broad caste categories such as "scheduled
castes" and "scheduled tribes" can be
misleading for understanding the relationship between caste
and gender, and for targeting anti-poverty programs. |
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