90 percent employed women are working informally in Nepal

Women informal sector workers share a disproportionate burden of unpaid care work and family responsibilities that limit their job opportunities.

At around nine in the morning, Gyanu Dawadi reports to work—a house under construction. She changes into her work attire—old tattered kurta suruwal layered with an oversized cotton shirt, a shawl tied tightly behind her head covering her hair, and a pair of gumboots covered with woven polypropylene cement sacks, held with a rusty annealed wire—before she takes charge for the day.