Discussing the Deficits in Decent Work | In Conversation with Dr Neha Wadhawan, Rashee Mehra and Dr Divya Ravindranath

Interviewed by: Shreeya Bhayana and Ishani Sharma In this episode of Interlinked’s sub-series, Kitabon ka Karwaan, we hold a book talk that explores a recent report published by the ILO on the “Deficits in Decent Work: Employer perspectives and practices on the quality of employment in domestic work in urban India”. For this podcast, We are joined by Dr Neha Wadhawan from the International Labour Organisation and Dr Divya Ravindranath and Ms Rashee Mehra from the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. The authors of the report take us through the methodology they adopted and give us a brief into their findings around the factors that determine the nature of domestic work in India from the perspective of employers. Dr Neha also provides valuable insight into the reasons ILO commissioned such a report and they hope the organisation has for exploring domestic work in the future, both in India and globally, You can find the report here. Dr Neha Wadhawan is a National Project Coordinator with the International Labour Organisation and is a political scientist by training. Her research interests centre around issues of mobility, gender, labour and citizenship in South Asia. Rashee Mehra is part of the School of Human Development at IIHS. Her research focuses on the issues of inequalities and activism, urban planning, informal work, social protection and gender. At IIHS, she works on creating research on social movements to support the work of activists and practitioners who engage with marginalised urban geographies. Dr Divya Ravindranath studies informal work, social protection, gender and urban health. She has worked with several not-for-profit organisations in urban and rural India, where most of her work focussed on issues of common pool resources, urban infrastructure and livelihoods. Image Source: https://theleaflet.in/situation-of-domestic-workers-in-india-what-needs-to-change/