Research

  • Broad area: Gender and labour.
  • Special interests: Gender in mining and plantation.

Teaching

  • I have taught optional papers in Sociology in the B.Stat. programme at the Indian Statistical Institute
  • I have been teaching courses for the Ph.D in Development Studies at the Economic Analysis Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore, from Januaryly 2016.
  • I have guided two doctoral students. The theses have been based on official statistics, secondary data and primary survey of rural areas.

Publications

Books
  1. Chattopadhyay, Molly: Occupational Socialization : A Study of Hospital Nurses (Ph. D. work), Sarat Book House, Calcutta, 1993.
Contributions to Books
  1. Jackson, Cecile & Molly Chattopadhyay: "Identities & Livelihoods : Gender, Ethnicity and Nature in a South Bihar Village" with Cecile Jackson in Agrarian Environment : Resources, Representation and Rule in India by Arun Agrawal & K. Sivaramakrishnan (Eds.). Duke University Press, 2000.
  2. Chattopadhyay, Molly: "Household Budgeting and Women: A Case of Mica Workers of Giridih" in Women in Development: Challenges and Achievements, edited by S.Vijaya Kumar, V. Narayana Reddy & B. Nalini, Serials Publications, New Delhi, 2005, pp. 196-207.
  3. Chattopadhyay, Molly and David Seddon. "Life histories and long-term change: Rural Livelihoods and Gender Relations in a West Bengal Village", Economic and Political weekly, Vol. XXXVII, No.49, December 7, 2002, Pp. 4935-4940 reproduced in Towards Empowering Indian Women: Mapping Specifics of Tasks in Crucial Sectors, edited by R.B.S. Verma, H.S. Verma and Nadeem Hasnain. New Delhi, Serials Pub., 2007, pp.362-374.
Journal Articles
  1. Chattopadhyay, Molly and Anupam Lahiri. "Data Anomaly in Mining Statistics of India". Statistical Journal of the IAOS, pp: 547-556. DOI. 10.3233/SJI160281. (IOS press)
  2. Chattopadhyay, Molly. "Workplace Gender Discrimination among Curing Workers of India". International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies. Vol. 2, No. 1, 2017, pp: 77-90. (Indrescience).
  3. Chakraborty, Sonali and Molly Chattopadhyay. "A Comparative Study on Gender Segmentation in Organized and Unorganized Manufacturing Sector of India". Indian Labour Journal, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 585-596. June 2015.
  4. Chakraborty, Sonali and Molly Chattopadhyay. "Occupational Segregation and Gender Wage Gap". Demography India, Vol 42, No. 1&2 (2013), pp. 105-130.
  5. Chattopadhyay, Molly, Sonali Chakraborty and Richard Anker. "Sex Segregation in India's Formal Manufacturing Sector", International Labour Review. Vol. 152/1, March 2013, Pp: 43-58. (ILO).
  6. Chattopadhyay, Molly: "Women workers in the mica industry: A case study", Indian Journal of Gender Studies, October 2011, 18:311-340 (Sage publications).
  7. Chattopadhyay, Molly: Women Workers in Mica-Manufacturing Industry of Giridih, Jharkhand. Retrieved January 20, 2008, from Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Asia-Pacific Case Study Series edited by Joel Katz. Website http://www.asmasiapacific.org/asm_case.php
  8. Chattopadhyay, Molly & Sonali Chakraborty: "Liberalization and Segregation: Changes in the Pattern of Segregation in the Factory Sector from 1989-90 to 2000-01", Crossing the Borders, Vol.2, 2009, Pp. 91-98.
  9. Chattopadhyay, Molly: "Sub-Contracting System and Women Workers: A Study of Mica Manufacturing Industry of Jharkhand". Sociological Bulletin, Vol.56, No. 2, May-August 2007, Pp. 289-307.
  10. Chattopadhyay, Molly & Sanyal, Siddhartha: "Incidence of Occupational Disease among Mica-workers of Jharkhand". Journal of Human Ecology, 21(1): 59-61(2007).
  11. Chattopadhyay, Molly: "Gender and Patriarchy: A Case of Mica-manufacturing Industry of India and Women Workers Therein", in The Proceedings of The Quallity of Life in a Globalising World , XVI World Sociology Congress, held in Durban, South Africa July 22 to 29, 2006.
  12. Chattopadhyay, Molly: "Data Gap in Studies on Women in Industry: An Illustration from Women Workers in Mica Industry" in Proceedings of the National Seminar on Gender Statistics and Data Gaps organized by Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India held in Goa, 5-7th February, 2004. Pp: 262-278.
  13. Chattopadhyay, Molly: "Waged Labour Arrangements in a West Bengal Village", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXVI, No.7, February 17, 2003, Pp. 569-575.
  14. Chattopadhyay, Molly & David Seddon: "Life Histories and Long-Term Change: Rural livelihoods and Gender Relations in a West Bengal Village", Economic and Political weekly, Vol. XXXVII, No.49, December 7, 2002, Pp. 4935-4940.
  15. Bagchi,D.K., P.M.Blaikie, Molly Chattopadhyay, John Cameron and David Seddon "Livelihood Trajectories in West Bengal and Nepal : Issues of Methods and Purpose", Journal of International Development,10, 453-468 (1998). (Wiley and Sons).
  16. Chattopadhyay, Molly: "Endangered Professionals : Traditional Birth Attendants of South Bihar", Economic and Political Weekly, XXX1,No.28, pp.1831-32, 1996.
  17. Chattopadhyay, Molly & Cecile Jackson: "Regional Political Formation and Changing Environmental Relations in South Bihar, India" in Agrarian Questions: The Politics of Farming Anno 1995, Proceeding, Ed. by the Agrarian Questions Organizing Committee Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, Vol. I, pp. 322-340, 1995.
  18. Chattopadhyay, Molly, C. Duttagupta and S. Bandyopadhyay: "Exploration of Bio-Social Factors for influencing Women to become Prostitutes in India", Social Biology,41, Nos. 3-4, pp. 252-259, 1994.

Project Reports
  1. Chattopadhyay, Molly: Final report on "Data Gap in Gender Statistics: Women in Indian Mining Sector", April 2015.
  2. Chattopadhyay, Molly & Sonali Chakraborty (Co-authored by Prof. M. Swaminathan): Final Report on "Occupational Segregation in the Factory Sector (1973-74 to 2000-01)", June 2005.
  3. Chattopadhyay, Molly & Ajay Kumar Ghosh: Final report on "Marginalisation of Female Workers in Mica-Manufacturing Industries", November, 2003.
  4. Chattopadhyay, Molly: Final report on "Gender and Labour: A Study of Mica Manufacturing Industry of Giridih, Jharkhand", September, 2002.
  5. Blaikie, P; D.K.Bagchi; Chattopadhyay, Molly et.al.: Final Report on Long-term Livelihood Trajectory was prepared in Collaboration with Prof. P.Blaikie, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. in 1997.
  6. Chattopadhyay, Molly & Jackson, Cecile: Final report on Reproductive Decision Making and Environmental Relations was prepared in Collaboration with Dr. Cecile Jackson, University of East Anglia, Norwich U.K. in 1995.

Conference/Seminar Papers
  1. "Employment Status: Gender Analysis of Coffee workers in South Indian Plantations". Paper presented at International conference on Gender Equality, Culture, Education and Social Sciences, Mysore, July 21-22, 2017.
  2. "Women in the Indian Mining Sector". Paper presented at 57th Annual conference by Indian Society of Labour Economics held at Sher-e Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Srinagar, 10-12 October, 2015.
  3. "Women workers in Coffee industry of India". Paper presented at 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, Colombo, 11-13 August 2015 organised by The International Institute of Knowledge Management, Sri Lanka.
  4. "Invisible workers of mining and quarrying sector: Data gap in official statistics". Paper presented at the conference on "The Unorganised Sector in India: Extending the Debate to Mining and Quarrying" hold at Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, 27-28th July, 2013.
  5. "Women Miners of India: Gender Intervention and Analysis". Paper presented at the ISA RC 32 Session on "Women, Poverty and the struggle for survival" hosted by the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Women in Society (ISA RC32) at the Second ISA Forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1- 4, 2012.
  6. "Gender and Patriarchy: A Case of Mica-Manufacturing Industry of India and Women Workers Therein". Paper presented in Labour Movements Research Committee (RC44), Session 5: Gender and Labour International Sociological Association, XVI World Sociology Congress Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July 2006.
  7. "Occupational Segregation in the Unorganised Manufacturing: An Analysis of Rural-Urban Disparity in Segregation". Paper submitted in the workshop on "Rural-Urban divide in the 90s", organised by NIRD, 5th to 7th December 2005. (Co-authored by Sonali Chakraborty).
  8. "Data Gap in Studies on Women in Industry: An Illustration from Women Workers in Mica Industry" in the conference on Gender and Data Gaps, organized by CSO, in Goa, February. 2004.
  9. "Informalisation of Formal Sector: A Case of Female Workers in Mica-Manufacturing Industry of Giridih, Jharkhand" in the conference on Gender, Work, Organisation, organized by University of Keele, UK, June, 2003.
  10. "Life Histories and Long Term Change in West Bengal: Livelihoods and Gender Relations" at Development Schools Association Conference held at School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K., September, 1997.
  11. "Regional Political Formation and Changing Environmental Relations in South Bihar, India" in Agrarian Questions: The Politics of Farming Anno, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, 1995.

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Last Updated: 21-November-2017