Street vending has been an integrated form of many women’s livelihood in both urban and rural cultures in India. Women street vendors, for their livelihood, sell their compact commodities without any permanent built-up structure. Their economic vulnerability constraints them to make their transit markets onto streets through cartwheels& other forms to sustain their livelihood. According to WIEGO (Women in Informal Economy Globalizing and Organizing)a voluntary organization, rural women migrate to urban areas for daily livelihood through street vending and market trading. These women street vendors face various livelihood challenges in terms of physical, economical, psychological, social, legislative, and family aspects. This descriptive concept paper attempts to address the livelihood challenges and insecurities faced by women as street vendors in the Madurai district,Tamilnadu by conceptualizing their physical& socio-economical obstacles and with respect to their family dimensions. This study also identifies the various impedimental blocks representing the three dimensions to facilitate a better livelihood and to enable & empower them to be self-sustained.
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