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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | How to treat unpaid work -Indira Hirway

How to treat unpaid work -Indira Hirway

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published Published on Mar 22, 2021   modified Modified on Mar 22, 2021

-The Hindu

There are many ways in which women’s burden at home can be reduced by the government

Women everywhere carry a disproportionately higher burden of unpaid work, namely, unpaid domestic services as well as unpaid care of children, the old and the disabled for their respective households. Though this work contributes to overall well-being at the household level and collectively at the national level, it is invisible in the national database and particularly in national policies.

This work is repetitive, boring and frequently drudgery — a 24-hour job without remuneration, promotions or retirement benefits. It restricts opportunities for women in the economy and in life. Women do this job not necessarily because they like it or are efficient in it, but because it is imposed on them by patriarchal norms, which are the roots of all pervasive gender inequalities. This unequal division of unpaid work between women and men is unfair and unjust and it deprives women of equal opportunities as men.

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The Hindu, 22 March, 2021, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/how-to-treat-unpaid-work/article34125020.ece?homepage=true


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