Why Are Majority Of Urban Indian Women Not Part Of The Workforce?
These factors are some of many reasons contributing to the low rate of female employment: marital status, education, caste, and religion.
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How Reproductive Leave Can Help Women Balance Work And Fertility Demands
There is a renewed energy surrounding reproductive leave, demonstrating an increasing acceptance of the complex entanglement of work and personal life.
Why Is Marriage Market Obsessed With Graduate But Gharelu Brides?
If you expect your educated sons to have a well-paid job then why do you restrict your educated bahus from going out to work? Rules must be the same for both genders or there should be no rules at all.
Why Don’t Desi Parents Take Their Daughter’s Income Seriously?
Even if a daughter earns less, it is her right to share the responsibility of taking care of her parents with her male sibling. Because it is also not right to impose all the responsibilities on the son just because he is a man.
Women Hit More Severely from COVID Impact on Employment
The report highlights that the share of women in workforce is extremely low in urban areas, i.e. around 10.3 per cent. Worse, their businesses took a bigger hit in COVID.
Budget 2021: Women To Be Allowed To Work In Night Shifts In All Sectors
Women will be allowed to work in all categories and also in the night-shifts with adequate protection, said the Indian FM.
Could This Pandemic Help Us Bring Equality At Work And Home?
It is important that women capitalize on this experience to lay down healthy boundaries and share the responsibility of domestic tasks.
Here’s How Women’s Work Participation In India Has Declined
Women’s participation in urban areas was low initially but dropped further from 17 percent in 2004–05 to 14 per cent in 2017–18 for all ages, and from 23 per cent to 18 per cent for women above fifteen years of age.
It Is Not Kids Who Sabotage Women’s Careers, Its Society
No woman should have to choose between family and profession. She shouldn’t have to postpone motherhood or forgo it completely because of lack of support and an environment that clearly discourages her from balancing both.
Women Salaried Workers See Higher Growth Than Men: NSO Report
The survey was conducted between April-June 2018 and January-March 2019 and it shows the data of the rising regular wage earners and salaried employees in the urban workforce where the total increase has been from 48.3 percent to 50 percent.
