it also provides microfinance and insurance through sewa bank training and maternity benefits and pensions its greatest impact has been raising selfesteem and bargaining power inside and outside home khera and nayak it currently has million women members mostly from rural areas out of a total female labour force of about million other measures have been a national law to protect street vendors in a social security law for informal workers in rights of homebased workers beedi and cigar workers act to protect about million homebased workers