What Will it Take for Indian Men to Pull Their Weight in the Household?
4 years, 2 months ago

What Will it Take for Indian Men to Pull Their Weight in the Household?

News 18  

September 18, 2020 marked the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a true warrior for gender equality, global feminist icon, and only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. The Time Use Survey 2019 provided statistical confirmation for anyone with even a shred of doubt about this fact On average, Indian women spend about 5 hours per day on unpaid domestic and caregiving work, vs. 30-40 minutes for men. On any given day, 92% of women in the 15-59 years “working ages”, participate in unpaid domestic activities on any given day, vs. only 29% of men. How a typical Indian woman spends her day provides deep insights into the conundrum of why only a fifth of India’s women participate in the labour force participation rate. The reservation for women bill of the Lok Sabha is only a small institutional step, since changing gender norms require encouragement from the community before institutional laws can evince changes.

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Reshaping gender roles in India: Improving women’s economic outcomes
6 months, 1 week ago

Reshaping gender roles in India: Improving women’s economic outcomes

Hindustan Times  

Women with children all across the globe face the daunting task of balancing career growth with caregiving responsibilities, which often leads to career stagnation and perpetuates several gender gaps in accessing decent jobs. Across G20 countries, without exception, women on average perform the majority of the daily time spent on unpaid care work, ranging from 90.5% in India to 60.2 …

Lifting the burden keeping Indian women from work
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Lifting the burden keeping Indian women from work

New Indian Express  

Women’s work participation across the world has been low and its recovery from the post-pandemic period has been slow. The International Labour Organization’s World Employment and Social Outlook Report for 2023 reflects on this persistent gender gap and pegs women’s participation in the labour market at 47.4 percent, as compared to men’s at 72.3 percent. Apart from the ILO's highlight …

Falling percentages, failing work conditions: A deeper look into women’s employment in India
8 months ago

Falling percentages, failing work conditions: A deeper look into women’s employment in India

The Hindu  

It’s no secret that the number of women in the labour market is significantly lesser than that of men, but did you know that in India, when it comes to rural women in labour force, the number is not just low, but has been almost steadily declining over the years? And for rural women, it’s been steadily declining over time,” …

The delicate balance of gender roles
8 months, 3 weeks ago

The delicate balance of gender roles

New Indian Express  

I smile and, when the occasion permits, share that it is indeed the oldest tradition of India you are keeping alive. I assume the tradition of changing the name happened in the last 100 years or so, when we adopted the western style of addressing married women. If you check your family records with traditional pundits, you will find that …

The determinant in more women in the job market
9 months, 2 weeks ago

The determinant in more women in the job market

The Hindu  

There is growing demand from social scientists, governments and international organisations, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, that women’s participation in the economy/labour market should increase to promote economic growth of India. Consequently, they overcrowd in stereotyped low productivity jobs and lag behind men in all average labour market outcomes such as participation, wages, and diversification …

Women are losing out to men in India’s jobless growth
1 year ago

Women are losing out to men in India’s jobless growth

Live Mint  

The share of women in regular salaried jobs in urban India dropped from 54% in the first quarter to 52.8% in the second quarter, according to quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey data, Business Standard reported. Since salaried workers receive regular wages, that type of work is preferred to casual work or self-employment, which also includes working as unpaid household help …

Women do 7 hours of housework, men under 3 hours - The Hindu
1 year, 4 months ago

Women do 7 hours of housework, men under 3 hours - The Hindu

The Hindu  

On July 24, the Tamil Nadu government launched camps to facilitate the registration of applicants for the Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thogai Thittam, or women’s basic income scheme. Data shows that married women spend on average over seven hours a day doing such work, regardless of their employment status, while men spend less than three hours. Click to subscribe to our …

A call to action: How Indian men can support working women’s progress
1 year, 8 months ago

A call to action: How Indian men can support working women’s progress

Live Mint  

In a standard economic model, agents maximize utility across goods, services and leisure. My analysis reveals that working women spend significantly less time on leisurely activities than working men and also compared to women who do not spend any time on employment-related activities. The TUS was a national representative sample that measured, in 30-minute intervals from 4am onwards, the time …

There's A Key Difference Between The Chores Men And Women Take On
1 year, 9 months ago

There's A Key Difference Between The Chores Men And Women Take On

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING In previous generations, household and child care duties were mainly the domain of women. Research on the division of household labor has found that men are often in charge of tasks they can do on their own schedule, “while women pick up responsibilities that are difficult to put off or reschedule and inherently forfeit their right to …

Women’s work is not valued properly: Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh
1 year, 9 months ago

Women’s work is not valued properly: Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh

The Hindu  

In her 2022 book, The Making of a Catastrophe, on the disastrous economic fallout of COVID-19, Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh writes that job losses and food insecurity were significantly higher for women. India is among one of the few countries that did not even achieve the MDGs for maternal health, and since then the pandemic has dramatically worsened the …

Why women get fewer jobs and earn lesser wages than men in India
1 year, 9 months ago

Why women get fewer jobs and earn lesser wages than men in India

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 27, 2023 12:39 IST Following the announcement by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in October last year of equal pay for all men and women Team India cricketers, the highest bid received by a cricketer in the inaugural Women’s Premier League is being celebrated as a watershed moment, not just in India but globally. …

Women spend 7.2 hrs on unpaid domestic work compared to 2.8 hrs spent by men: Study
1 year, 10 months ago

Women spend 7.2 hrs on unpaid domestic work compared to 2.8 hrs spent by men: Study

Deccan Chronicle  

Ahmedabad: Women in the working age category of 15 to 60 years spend 7.2 hours on unpaid domestic work compared to 2.8 hours spent by men, indicating they have “time poverty", as per a research conducted by a professor from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Even wage-earning women spend twice the amount of time on unpaid domestic work in …

Measuring women’s work participation: why it is important to get it right
1 year, 10 months ago

Measuring women’s work participation: why it is important to get it right

The Hindu  

February 11, 2023 12:44 pm | Updated 09:38 pm IST The 2022-23 Economic Survey should be credited for acknowledging that official statistics may have inadequately captured the true nature of women’s work in India. The Economic Survey has listed three sources of measurement error: using very broad categories that club productive economic activity with domestic unpaid work ; asking single-shot …

Women fail to get due recognition as farmers
2 years, 3 months ago

Women fail to get due recognition as farmers

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: When the founding fathers of the Indian republic sat down to write the Constitution, the feature that they gave utmost importance was equality. There is a strong notion among the people that men take up “hard work” that women can’t perform and therefore women’s work is quite easy. Despite the work that women undertake require unique skills, women won’t …

WFH: Can it add more Indian women to the workforce?
2 years, 3 months ago

WFH: Can it add more Indian women to the workforce?

Business Standard  

One of the five pledges that Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed Indians to adopt during his Independence Day speech was equality, specifically equality for women. Modi’s remarks assume significance as India has one of the world’s lowest female labour force participation rate, or LFPR. Having said that, the International Labour Organization, or ILO found that a significant proportion of women …

Why India's Laxmi Deserves More Shakti Through Equal Skill Training and Job Opportunities
2 years, 4 months ago

Why India's Laxmi Deserves More Shakti Through Equal Skill Training and Job Opportunities

News 18  

A recent report by consulting group McKinsey Global has highlighted the immense economic potential India is failing to realise, all because women face work-related hindrances. As per the Time Use Survey Report 2019, women in India spend only 61 minutes per day on employment and related activities, as opposed to 247 minutes spent on unpaid domestic services. According to 2019-2020 …

May the Female Force Be With You: India Must Harness the Strength of Women in the Workforce
2 years, 7 months ago

May the Female Force Be With You: India Must Harness the Strength of Women in the Workforce

News 18  

Michelle Obama’s famous remarks that “No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens” deserves more attention than ever as we celebrate this International Labour Day. As a result of its strict adherence to social norms and patriarchal values, Indian society disproportionately places the …

Women@Work: Working Women Up Globally but Down in India. Is There a Way Out?
2 years, 9 months ago

Women@Work: Working Women Up Globally but Down in India. Is There a Way Out?

News 18  

My daughter who is in Grade 1 was in her Hindi online class and while doing the akshar श्र they were asked to draw a श्रमिक, without hesitation she drew me. If you look at data from the 1990s till date, across most countries, women’s participation in the labour force has increased. Our rate is significantly lower than Sri Lanka …

Women Ask Their Partners If They See Them As Their Equals
2 years, 10 months ago

Women Ask Their Partners If They See Them As Their Equals

The Quint  

Gender disparity is visible in most Indian households even today, especially when it comes to the division of domestic responsibilities. The last two years have highlighted why it is necessary that both men and women pull equal weight and evenly split their household chores. But if you are used to the daily tasks of cooking, cleaning and generally managing the …

Patralekha Chatterjee | Covid’s impact, WFH has hit India’s women harder
3 years, 5 months ago

Patralekha Chatterjee | Covid’s impact, WFH has hit India’s women harder

Deccan Chronicle  

What does being a homemaker and a mother really mean for the vast majority of Indian women? But millions of women in India, as in many other countries, are still socialised into accepting the notion that it is “natural” for women to be tasked with unpaid domestic work. Every day, women spent nearly five hours in unpaid domestic work; for …

‘Shecession’ and the Case of Missing Women in India’s Formal Economy
3 years, 6 months ago

‘Shecession’ and the Case of Missing Women in India’s Formal Economy

News 18  

India slipped 28 places from 112 to 140 in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. Indeed, several estimates report that if women’s work were recognized correctly, FLPR would be 81.6 per cent, as compared to Male Labour Force Participation Rate of 76.7 percent. While the formal economy is made to run on the backs of women, the …

India’s women and the workforce
3 years, 9 months ago

India’s women and the workforce

Hindustan Times  

Why is women’s employment declining in India? The thrust of the predominant explanations is that women are dropping out of paid work or the labour force either because of fear of sexual violence outside the home; or fear of being stigmatised by the community that might see their work as a marker of low status, i.e. Women’s education has increased …

Gender Pay Parity: 37% Indian Working Women Get Paid Less Than Men, Suggests Report
3 years, 9 months ago

Gender Pay Parity: 37% Indian Working Women Get Paid Less Than Men, Suggests Report

ABP News  

New Delhi: Even as 66 percent of Indians believe that the condition of gender equality has improved compared to their parents' time, working women still face the strongest gender bias across Asia Pacific countries. In this alarming report, one in five working women in India stated that their companies exhibit a 'favourable bias' towards men when compared to the regional …

Only 7% of urban Indian women have paid jobs
3 years, 10 months ago

Only 7% of urban Indian women have paid jobs

The Economist  

Listen to this story. The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, a local research firm, put the share of urban women in or looking for work at just 7% in November. Their answers to questions like “Should men have more right to a job than women?” are more egalitarian than poll responses in Indonesia, where fully 53% of women pursue work …

No, Kamal Haasan. Pay for Household Work Won't Help Indian Women. These Policy Prescriptions Would
3 years, 11 months ago

No, Kamal Haasan. Pay for Household Work Won't Help Indian Women. These Policy Prescriptions Would

News 18  

When actor-politician Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam released a seven-point manifesto for Reimagining Tamil Nadu in the run-up to the 2021 elections, a glass ceiling was broken. To see mainstream politicians and judges recognize the burden of women’s disproportionate domestic work, and make it an election issue is heartening especially because Indian women spend up to 10X the time on …

Less than 10% Indian men involved in household chores, shows latest survey
4 years, 2 months ago

Less than 10% Indian men involved in household chores, shows latest survey

India Today  

That there's a gendered division of labour in India is something well known - and evident from looking around virtually every household, and to some extent, workplaces. Some 84 per cent of women's working hours are spent on activities they do not get paid for, while for men, the reverse is true - 80 per cent of their work time …

India's GDP drag: Why the unfair gender-division in work weighs down the economy
4 years, 2 months ago

India's GDP drag: Why the unfair gender-division in work weighs down the economy

India Today  

About six years ago, Sonu Devi, 31, a farmer from Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district told this reporter what a day in her life was like. Women spent an average of 299 minutes per day on unpaid domestic labour, with men spending 97 minutes. Women spent an average of 134 minutes per day on unpaid caregiving responsibilities for household members, nearly …

Data | 92% Indian women take part in unpaid domestic work; only 27% men do so
4 years, 2 months ago

Data | 92% Indian women take part in unpaid domestic work; only 27% men do so

The Hindu  

More than 90% of Indian women participated in unpaid domestic work at home in 2019 compared to 27% of men. Though subtle regional variations existed, more than 84% of women participated in unpaid domestic work across all States, regardless of men's participation in such work and women's participation in employment and related activities. Click to remove AMP mode State-wise analysis …

'Atmanirbhar Men': Will Covid19 Be the Gender Equalizer When it Comes to Household Chores?
4 years, 4 months ago

'Atmanirbhar Men': Will Covid19 Be the Gender Equalizer When it Comes to Household Chores?

News 18  

"It feels ideal when your spouse shares household chores with you, and that helps you strike a balance between your office and household work to a great extent,” says 32-year-old Meghalina Ray, Manager at IDBI Bank, Chennai. It’s Too Much for Women, and Men Finally Understand With the onset of the pandemic, men have somewhat aced at washing dishes, cooking, …

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