The DW Project has three facets i) The Jaipur chapter draws from an earlier action-research of a Jagori fellow (Rights and Dignity: Women Domestic Workers in Jaipur, Jagori 2008). The group which emerged during the action-research has recently been registered as a union of women workers in the informal sector. The Project aims at strengthening this group and providing support to initiate discussions on women’s rights; rights and responsibilities of domestic workers; and to lobby for minimum wages for domestic workers. ii) To identify a group of domestic workers in Delhi, especially part-time workers, and then mobilize them to initiate discussions on women’s rights and rights and responsibilities of domestic workers through participatory action-research methodologies. We are in the process of developing research tools for data collection on working conditions of part-time domestic workers with the emerging group of domestic workers. iii) Drawing on our experiences, we are part of the ongoing debate on social security for informal sector workers and the attempts by the State to include domestic workers within the ambit of the proposed law. We are in the process of networking with larger domestic workers’ groups and informal sector workers’ groups for policy advocacy on minimum wages and social security.
As of now, we are holding meetings with domestic workers in Delhi (in Madanpur Khadar JJ Colony) and Jaipur (in Sanjay Nagar, Fauji Nagar and Panipech) to discuss their working conditions. Domestic Workers are also being registered as members of the Union at Jaipur.
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