MWG-011 IGNOU Solved Assignment 2023-24
Course Code: MWG 011
Course Title: Women in the Economy
Assignment No. : MWG 011/AST/TMA-2023-24
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: The assignment has two sections (Part I and Part II). All the sections are compulsory. Please
Write your answers in your own words. Assignments with plagiarized material will not be accepted.
PART I ( 40 marks)
Attempt any one of the two questions from Part I (word limit 1500 words)
Watch the video or look at the pictures pasted below and make a note of the issues dealt in the question. Read up the same issues in the course material and explain them by giving examples from incidents happening around you. Pl, don’t copy and paste from the course material or from the internet sources. Plagiarism if found in the answers of the question will not be evaluated.
Q1. Watch the following video at the given link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxsyDyyk_WI (Women, Housework and the Price of Invisible Labour)
Discuss the issues that have been taken up in the video and relate them to the theoretical understanding given in your course material.
Q 2. Look at the pictures below:
Discuss “women and work ” by analyzing these pictures . Give examples in support of your arguments from both personal and professional life situations that affect women workers.
Part II
Q. 3 Attempt any three of the following questions . (Word limit 1000 words)
a. Describe the inter-linkages between gender, migration and labour in both national and international contexts.
b. Explain the ‘Sectorization’ of women’s employments. Give suitable examples in support of your answer.
c. How has globlisation led to “Feminization of labour” especially in global south? Explain.
