ABSTRACT
Across Indian society, gender inequality results in unequal opportunities. While it impacts the lives of the three genders, statistically, it is women and transgender that are the most disadvantaged. In India, many girls experience gender inequality daily in their homes and communities. Gender is constructed; the gender role, behaviour, ideology and institutions help construct and maintain the status of different genders in society. As a result, women are considered second-class citizens and occupy a low position in society. The family structure and the ideology of domestic responsibility play an essential part in this context. Within a family and outside, there is control over the women’s production and labour. In terms of “achievement” of economic “development” in post-independent India, there is a growth in the informal sector, where more women are employed informally, which has given rise to the phenomenon of “informalisation of the formal sector”.
