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Nikunj: Namaste welcome to postcards your passport to unseen corners of people policy and politics. one of the things that we hope to do with postcards is to talk about some of the Lesser discussed topics and kind of bring nuances in those conversations things that we often don't talk about in the day-to-day life. uh

today's topic is titled off the clock women labor and in this topic we are going to talk a lot

about about how did women enter the workforce how what kind of Rights they're fighting

for in the formal workspace and how the same kind of rights are not afforded to women in the informal sector while we were researching this episode uh we came across this beautiful

quote and a very powerful quote from autobiography Alo andhari she was herself a domestic worker and she wrote “in the dark Silence of the night after everyone else had had fallen

asleep I often thought about my life when was it made me a woman be the brunt

of world's burden silently”- why did Society think that a women's toil her labor her struggles were just a part of her existence and not something to be acknowledged or valued this sentiment really hits home right it talks about how women's work particularly domestic work is often undervalued and underrepresented these kind of conversations are what

what we are going to have today and a lot more discussing social cultural Dynamics the power structures and the intersectionalities of identities that exist within all of these dynamics that exist

today I have Sanchitaben with me who with whom we'll be discussing all of

these conversations s is National coordinator of Sewa Bharat

uh and it is actually a union of close to 3 million workers with women workers

who working in informal economy and that 3 million I'm just want to repeat it again 3 million is a 30 lakhs is such a

huge number that we often don't think about thank you for coming and welcome

Sanchitaben: Namaste nikunjbhai always a pleasure to interact with you thank you for giving

me this opportunity lovely meeting you again

Nikunj: no pleasure was all mine of course like I worked I was very very lucky to

to have spent like couple of years of my life at SEWA um which really shaped my

understanding about a lot of things in life but very interestingly I called you