Evaluation Report on Support to Training and Employment Programme For Women(STEP)

Abstract

As per the 1991 census, 90 per cent of the women work force is engaged in the informal sector for their livelihood and in the absence of proper legislative protections, they are considered highly vulnerable to various forms of social and economic exploitations. Nevertheless, the plight of the women particularly living below the poverty line is more pronounced in view of their comparative disadvantageous place in matters, like; economic status, education, health, nutrition, etc. This necessitated the state intervention to introduce protective measures against the social and economic impoverishment of the women working in the informal sector.