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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Married women head 4% of families -Rema Nagarajan

Married women head 4% of families -Rema Nagarajan

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published Published on Apr 29, 2015   modified Modified on Apr 29, 2015
-The Times of India

Among those currently married, barely 4% of all households are headed by women. In sharp contrast, women-headed households constitute nearly three-fourths of those headed by a widowed person, about two-thirds of those headed by separated people and about 60% among those who are divorced. Given the fact that women vastly outnumber men in each of these three categories, that's not surprising.

Among the larger states, the proportion of women-headed households in those who are currently married is the highest in Kerala (9.7%) followed by Himachal and Uttarakhand with 8% and 8.4% respectively. This proportion is lowest in Gujarat, just 2%, followed by Delhi with just 2.3% and West Bengal with 2.5%.

This was revealed in the latest census data on marital status, sex and age of household heads released on Tuesday. Over 70% of currently married men are household heads, compared to barely 3% of the married women, the data showed.

Even among the women-headed households, a significant chunk could be because the male members have migrated out for work, which would explain why a state like Uttarakhand has such a high proportion, though cultural factors could also be playing a role in states like Kerala and Meghalaya.

When households comprising married couples were grouped according to the age of the household head, the data showed an interesting pattern -- women-headed households formed a larger proportion among households where the head of the household was below 20 years of age. This proportion was 10.6% at the national level. The proportion of women-headed households kept falling as the age of household heads increased till it touched 3.3% in the 50-59 age group. Beyond 59 years, the proportion of women-headed households rose slowly, till it touched 7% in the 80+ age group.

The pattern is repeated in almost every state, though the exact age group at which the declining trend reverses varies from state to state.

If smaller states are also counted, Meghalaya had the highest proportion of women-headed households (9.8%), marginally higher than Kerala, among those currently married. Kerala has the highest proportion of women-headed households in the lower age groups. About 24% of households headed by persons aged below 20 years are women-headed. This rises to 35% of households with heads aged 20-29, falls to 22% in the 30-39 age group and then keeps falling as the age of the household head increases.

Though the number of widowed men is much lower than widowed women, 70% of widowed men headed their households while only 51.7% of widowed women headed their households. This could mean that almost half the 43.3 million widowed women live as dependents.


The Times of India, 29 April, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Married-women-head-4-of-families/articleshow/47089480.cms


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