1st Edition
Women in the Civil Services Gender and Workplace Identities in India
By Trijita Gonsalves
Copyright 2022
204 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
204 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
204 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
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This book explores the personal and professional lives of women in the Indian Civil Services and analyses the dynamics of gender and workplace identities for women in government.
Based on first-hand interviews of women civil servants at various levels and ages, this book presents a narrative of their work conditions, the degrees of authority they exercise and their perceptions of themselves –... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Gender and Bureaucracy – The Worldwide Scenario 3. The Indian Civil Service during the Raj and the Status of Women in the Colonial Bureaucracy 4. Women in the Civil Services in Post Independent India 5. Family, Work and Well-Being: Striking a Balance 6. A Man’s World – the Nature of the Civil Service Job 7. Workplace Identities and Powerlessness: Struggling for Survival 8. Working with External Stakeholders: from Local Level PRIs to Higher Ministers 9. Representing the Common Woman – How Representative are we? 10. Conclusion Bibliography. List of Appendixes 1. Questionnaire 2. List of Civil Services, Government of India 3. Vishaka Guidelines against Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Biography
Trijita Gonsalves completed her PhD on ‘Gender and Bureaucracy: Women in the Indian Civil Services’ in 2019. Her areas of interest are public administration, public policy and gender studies. She has published articles in regional and national journals like Socialist Perspective, Refugee Watch, Indian Journal of Political Science and others. She has also contributed chapters in books such as Rakhahari Chatterjee (ed) Politics India: The State–Society Interface; Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay (ed): Internal Migration Within South Asia.
