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STORIES OF GENDER AND WORK: GENDER-NEUTRAL AND GENDERED WORK DOMAINS

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Dr. Bhavna Kataria1*
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si10.00192

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The study entitled “Gender and Work: A Study of Clerks in Government Offices” is an ethnographic study. In this study, I concentrated on clerks who are people engaged with files, and maintaining records in various departments and in government ministries. It looks at the aspects of gender and work in the working life of both men and women Clerks in two government offices in New Delhi and reveals gender-neutral and gendered domains. The central question that I pursue in the research study is how gender affects work at the workplace. I delve into this question by inquiring into the lives of Clerks and their seniors and employees junior to Clerks in order to understand the structure of mobility, gradations, and limits within which clerks viewed their work lives. The field sites chosen for the study were – the Director’s Office (Administration) in an Agricultural Institute and, the Branch Office of the Ministry of Finance. Clerks were chosen for the study because there is scarce research work on Clerks in government offices that address their work-related problems and issues in India. In this article, I will be focusing on the concept of gender and the sociological approaches to work. The main aim of the article is to explore two domains in the workplace encountered by clerks and employees at adjacent posts- Gender-neutral and Gendered work domains. Then I will proceed to narrative accounts on the issue that how gender affects work.

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