each paper benefits from an anonymous external peer review process before being published in this series it provides an indepth analysis of trends in labour outcomes of women in india based on unit level datasets of employmentunemployment surveys undertaken in and the paper brings out the gender differentials that exist in the employment status of women and men despite the existence of legal and policy framework for the empowerment of women in the country le document met en evidence les differences entre les sexes en ce qui concerne iemploi et ce en depit de iexistence d un cadre juridique et politique favorisant i autonomisation des femmes dans le pays