ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the exploitation of labor in the informal sector by the owners of capital, who are said to design linkages that enhance their control to minimize wages in both sectors. Family roles are often responsible for female marginalization in the informal sector. In the informal sector, family life and economic life are blurred, resulting in an amalgamation of activity that makes close evaluation and assistance all the more difficult. Credit services continue to be the overwhelming focus of informal-sector assistance programs by both governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). One of the most underutilized roles of formal education in developing countries is to teach practical skills and promote microenterprise role models in the primary classroom. Governments, institutions, and assistance agencies have an obligation to examine the implications of such integration in terms of their effects on families and specifically on women.
