A panel discussion on March 7 at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi gave women from the informal sector a space to share narratives of their lives and express solidarity. Organised by the Indian wing of the global network, Women in Informal Employment: Globalising and Organising (WIEGO), the women worked in diverse occupations: as home-based workers, street vendors, construction workers, domestic workers and waste-pickers.
Informal workers account for over 90 percent of the country’s workforce and half its GDP. Yet their contributions are not valued nor do their daily struggles for survival cause enough concern. They. . .