This article begins by outlining the position of women and work in the Global
South, highlighting the precarity of their labour market participation. It then
argues that the experiences of these women are often examined within a
one-dimensional analytical framework and are therefore invisible in the
intersectional literature, which tends to take a Western-centric approach. It
also contends that existing research fails to consider the particular domestic
and cultural circumstances of the women so examined and how their location
in these spaces impacts on their experiences of work. It then argues for an
examination of women and work in the Global South that takes an intersectional
approach that recognises the complexity of their experiences as generated by
multi-categorical and multilevel strands of inequality. It goes on to introduce
the contributions to this special issue, which explore inequality through an
intersectional lens.