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The employment opportunities are rising in case of women works, according to a survey conducted based on time used on activities by individuals, according to a survey by the National Statistics Office.
It is based on “time used survey”, is a statistical method for capturing unpaid work, which measures the time spend by an individual on different activities. Accordingly, the survey found that during 2024 the people engaged in employment and related activities for about 440 minutes a day, while men worked 473 minutes and women for 341 minutes.
The survey revealed that women work more time for domestic unpaid work amount to 137 minutes, whereas men spent only 88 minutes, according to the responses for the survey. While in the activities covering culture, leisure and use of mass media, men participated 177 minutes and women 164 minutes.
As per the report, the women in the ages group of 15-59 engaged 41%, that is 140 minutes, in giving care to the household members, while participation of men in giving care to the household members is at 21.4 %, that is 74 minutes. Thus, it emphasizes that the Indian women spare more time for the household care, a general understanding appears to be true.
The survey said, that the Workforce Participation Rate (WPR) show decline in females from 44.2 % in 2004-5 to 25% in 2018-19, while there is marginal increase to 30.9 % in 2019-20. This increased WPR is due to increased self-employment among women. It is more evident with the participation of males being 76.7 % against 30.9% female in 2019-20.
As per the VV Giri National Labour Institute points that, the women are more engaged in various unpaid or domestic work such as cooking and cleaning, fetching water and firewood or taking care of children and the elderly, a observation shows that women carry out at least two and a half times more unpaid household and care work than men. Thus women have less time to work in paid labour. But the researchers feel to create value to the unpaid work that women engaged, or subsidises to the cost of the care to sustain the families, it would be incredible amount.
Though societies and economies may not recognize the value of the unpaid work by the women, with the recent issues like climate change, women’s unpaid work in farming or gathering water or firewood etc are growing in the rural areas and pursing the governments to come with policies by way of providing incentives such as social protection and basis infrastructure and provide share in domestic and care work between men and women. This is more reasoned activity for the government to accelerate progress on women economic empowerment.
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