A blog post by Nivedita Menon on Kafila, 6 May 2011.
The summary of preliminary findings of the first pan-India survey of sex-workers is now available on-line. 3000 women from 14 states and 1 UT were surveyed, all of them from outside collectivised/organised and therefore politically active spaces, precisely “in order to bring forth the voices of a hitherto silent section of sex workers.”
The significant finding is this: About 71 percent of them said they had entered the profession willingly.
Year of publication: 2011 Theme: Economics and Development Author: Nivedita Menon Relevant URL: Link to the blog on the Kafila site