Working Girls (2025)
Paromita Vohra
Paromita Vohra
A humorous yet raw and authentic study of women’s reproductive labour across the marriage-market continuum, including, sex work, erotic dancing, surrogacy and egg donation, paid domestic work and unpaid domestic/care work across India, while also offering a comparison of the law’s highly differential regulation of these apparently disparate forms of female reproductive labour.
"What counts as womens work, and who gets to decide? In Working Girls (2025), filmmaker Paromita Vohra turns the camera toward labour that often remains unseen, tracing the lives of women across India whose work ranges from care work to sex work. The 130-minute documentary opens with a mosaic of shots of women getting ready for work. With interviews, animation and voiceovers, Vohra stitches together stories of women across professionsfrom dancers and egg donors to ASHA workersto examine how labour tied to care and survival is often invisibilised, underpaid or dismissed."
"Paromita Vohras new film urges us to expand our collective imagination of what it means to work and who gets to be called a worker. Her journey from Unlimited Girls to Working Girls is a political one with unflinching gazes, collective spirit, spontaneous laughter and moments of solitude"