Research

  • Broad area: Gender and labour

Teaching

    • Taught optional paper (Sociology) to B.Stat III students (5th Semester) at ISI, Kolkata.
    • Taught one module of Ph.D. course work in Development Studies to JRF, Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore.

Publications

    1. Chattopadhyay, Molly. "Mechanization: an issue for coffee curing workers of India". Indian Journal of Economics and Development, June, 2019, Vol. (6), 1-6. (ISSN: 2320-9836).
    2. Chattopadhyay, Molly. "A Profile of Women Workers in Indian Mining Sector", Contemporary Research in India, 1-6.
    3. Chattopadhyay, Molly and Anupam Lahiri. "Data Anomaly in Mining Statistics of India", Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 33(2017), 547-556. (IOS press).
    4. Chattopadhyay, Molly. "Workplace Gender Discrimination among Coffee Workers of India", International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies, 2017, Vol 2 (9th Issue), No.1, 77-90. (Inderscience Publisher).
    5. 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. (Publisher: Government of India, Ministry of Labour and Employment Labour Bureau).
    6. Chakraborty, Sonali and Molly Chattopadhyay. "Occupational Segregation and Gender Wage Gap". Demography India, Vol 42, No. 1&2 (2013), pp. 105-130. (Publisher: Indian Association for the Study of Population). (Received K. Srinivasan award).
    7. 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. (Publisher Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Labour Organization).
    8. Chattopadhyay, Molly: "Women workers in the mica industry: A case study", Indian Journal of Gender Studies, October 2011, 18:311-340 (Sage publications).
    9. 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.
    10. 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
    11. 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. (Sage Publication).
    12. Chattopadhyay, Molly & Sanyal, Siddhartha: "Incidence of Occupational Disease among Mica-workers of Jharkhand". Journal of Human Ecology, 21(1): 59-61(2007).
    13. 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.
    14. 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.
    15. Chattopadhyay, Molly: "Waged Labour Arrangements in a West Bengal Village", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXVI, No.7, February 17, 2003, Pp. 569-575. (Publisher: Sameeksha Trust).
    16. 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. (Publisher: Sameeksha Trust).
    17. 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.
    18. 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). (Publisher: John Wiley & Sons).
    19. Chattopadhyay, Molly: "Endangered Professionals: Traditional Birth Attendants of South Bihar", Economic and Political Weekly, XXX1,No.28, pp.1831-32, 1996. (Publisher: Sameeksha Trust).
    20. 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.

    Book
    1. Chattopadhyay, Molly: Occupational Socialization: A Study of Hospital Nurses (Ph. D. work), Sarat Book House, Calcutta, 1993.

    Book Chapters
    1. 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.
    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 & 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.

    Paper published in proceedings of conferences
    1. "Mechanisation in coffee industry: Effects on female labour in Karnataka". Paper presented at 44th All India Sociological Conference held in Mysore, Dec 27-29, 2018.
    2. "Gender Analysis of Compensation Inequity in Coffee Plantations of South India''. Paper presented at International conference on Women's Work in Rural Economies, Vyalyar, Kochi Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2018.
    3. "Employment status: Gender analysis of coffee plantation workers in south india". Paper presented at International conference on Gender Equality, Culture, Education and Social Sciences, Mysore, July 21-22, 2017.
    4. "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.
    5. "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.
    6. "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.
    7. "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.
    8. "Gender and Patriarchy: A Case of Mica-Manufacturing Industry of India and Women Workers Therein". Paper presented in Labour Movements Research Committee (RC44): Gender and Labour International Sociological Association, XVI World Sociology Congress Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July 2006.
    9. "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).
    10. "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.
    11. "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.
    12. "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.
    13. "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.

Conference/Workshop

Organizing conference/workshop
  1. Organised workshop on 'Data Anomaly in Official Statistics Regarding Women's Labour in India', Economic Analysis Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.
  2. Organised National Conference on "Interdisciplinary Researches in Social Sciences in Eastern India with special reference to Jharkhand, 27-28 February, 2014.
Chairing conference/workshop/panel discussion
  • Chaired the session on "Farming and Gender Issues" in the conference on Agriculture and Rural Development Issues in Eastern India" held in Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih, March 12-13, 2015.
  • Chaired a session on "Data and Method in Climate Analysis" in the workshop on "Climate Change and Agriculture in India" held in Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, March 28, 2016.

Awards/Honours

  • Prof. K. Srinivasan award for the best paper published in 'Demography India' awarded by Indian Association for the Study of Population, 2016.
  • Travel sponsorship by International Sociological Association, University of Complutence, Madrid to present paper at Second ISA Forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1- 4, 2012.
  • Travel sponsorship by Agrarian Questions Organising Committee to present paper at Agrarian Questions: The Politics of Farming Anno, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, 1995.

Project

    1. Chattopadhyay, Molly and Madhura Swaminathan: Current project on "A Study on Strengthening Post-Production Management and Enhancing Agri-Commodity Commercialisation". Funded by Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India (2018-19). 2. Chattopadhyay, Molly: 2018. Final support submitted on "Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee Industry of Karnataka". Funded by Indian Statistical Institute (2015-2018). 3. Chattopadhyay, Molly: 2015. Final report on "Data Gap in Gender Statistics: Women in Indian Mining Sector". Funded by Indian Statistical Institute (2012-2015). 4. Chattopadhyay, Molly & Sonali Chakraborty (Co-authored by Prof. M. Swaminathan): 2005. Final Report on "Occupational Segregation in the Factory Sector (1973-74 to 2000-01)". Funded by Indian Statistical Institute (2003-2005). 5. Chattopadhyay, Molly & Ajay Kumar Ghosh: 2003. Final report on "Marginalisation of Female Workers in Mica-Manufacturing Industries". Funded by Indian Statistical Institute (2002-2003). 6. Chattopadhyay, Molly: 2002. Final report on "Gender and Labour: A Study of Mica Manufacturing Industry of Giridih, Jharkhand". Funded by Indian Statistical Institute (2001-2002). 7. Blaikie, P; D.K.Bagchi; Chattopadhyay, Molly et.al.: 1997. Final Report on Long-term Livelihood Trajectory was prepared in Collaboration with Prof. P.Blaikie, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. Funded by Department for International Development, UK, 1996-1997. 8. Chattopadhyay, Molly & Jackson, Cecile: 1995. Final report on Reproductive Decision Making and Environmental Relations was prepared in Collaboration with Dr. Cecile Jackson, University of East Anglia, Norwich U.K. Funded by Overseas Development Group, UK, 1994-1995.

Last Updated: 30-November-2021