International Journal of Science Technology & Management www.ijstm.com Volume No.04, Special Issue No.02, February 2015 ISSN (Print) 2394-1529, (Online) 2394-1537 207 | Page MANAGEMENT OF URBAN INDIAN WOMEN IN INFORMAL SECTOR: RECENT TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF EMPLOYMENT Dr Anita Tyagi Department of Humanities, MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, (India) ABSTRACT In this article it has attempted to look the changing patterns of women's paid work over one and the half decade especially in urban India. This article looked at the informal sector activities particularly in urban India where women workers are concentrated and has tried to analyses the main trends in urban women's employment. Consider first the overall evidence of the trends in female employment in urban India. We have data from the small samples of the National Sample survey (Covering the period up to 2004-2005). While these cannot replace state-wise indicators, they do provide some idea of the tendencies at all levels of India. I. INTRODUCTION In the era or globalisation, it has become commonplace to argue that trade openness in particular generates processes that encourage the increased employment of women in informal sector. The new liberalization policy orientation emphasizes export growth among others in the economy. This augurs well for women's employment in those export industries in which female employment intensity is high. In addition development in general and higher per capita incomes are supposed to lead to more employment in services. This development not only shifted the women's unpaid household work to paid work, also increased more paid jobs for women workers. The most recent data show Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities, MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly (UP) that employment growth in the first half of this decade has been rapid growth among urban women. II. INFORMAL SECTOR & WOMEN WORKER One of the major problems with the study of informal sector employment of both men and women is the sheer difficulty of defining, identifying and quantifying it. Because the sector is effectively defined as a residual, it becomes very difficult to piece together any estimates of aggregate employment and much of the information is necessarily based on micro-level studies which can yield valuable qualitative data even if not much in terms of aggregate analysis. In the case of women workers, the problem is further complicated by the fact that much of their informal work is unrecognised and unpaid, and therefore, many standard labour force and employment indicators do not enter.