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>The fact that barely a quarter of women work—a share that has seen a precipitous decline in the past decade Wait, fewer women are working in India over time?
by otalp 9y ago
>The fact that barely a quarter of women work—a share that has seen a precipitous decline in the past decade
Wait, fewer women are working in India over time? Why is that?
- fauigerzigerk 9y agoThey say it's a smaller share, which doesn't necessarily mean fewer women, depending on what is counted as "work". It could be (I'm just guessing here), that the type of work that men do has been "legalized" (and hence counted) to a much greater extent than the type of work that women predominantly do.
- satya71 9y agoMost people in India work in the informal sector and are not counted.
- denzil_correa 9y agoThat also means these most people won’t have acceptable work conditions and other employee rights that the formal sector has.
- tomrod 9y agoOr they work on farms, or they build crafts as craftsmen/craftswomen in their own workshops, etc. Definition is very broad.
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- godzilla82 9y agoI don't have data to back it up. But this simply is not correct. Social norms have changed over the last few decades and that alone means the percentage of working women have gone up. Very few of the women of my age group are housewives, which was the default a few decades back.
- statguy 9y agohttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39945473 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39945473 "Improved stability in family income can be understood as a disincentive for female household members to join the labour force"