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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Recognising the ‘compulsory’ woman worker -Brinda Karat

Recognising the ‘compulsory’ woman worker -Brinda Karat

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published Published on Jun 20, 2022   modified Modified on Jun 20, 2022

-The Hindu

There is an urgent need for widespread surveys of poor rural women and how they spend their time

The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) reported that the labour participation rate of rural women was 9.92% in March 2022 compared to 67.24% for men. This is a cause for concern. According to CMIE, millions who left the labour market stopped looking for employment “possibly [because they were] too disappointed with their failure to get a job and under the belief that there were no jobs available”. In countries like the U.S., Canada and Australia, such workers who are willing to work but give up searching for work for various reasons are called ‘discouraged workers’ and they are included in the unemployed category. This phenomenon, not captured in India by any official labour force surveys, is wrongly described as women “dropping out” or “leaving the labour market” giving the impression that this was a choice made by them, whereas, actually, women are pushed out of employment. The CMIE provides valuable inputs for urgently required government intervention in rural India.

Ground-level realities are worse than what the CMIE suggests and what the government denies. Women who belong to landless households or with meagre landholdings cannot afford the luxury of being “discouraged.” These are the “compulsory” workers. 

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The Hindu, 20 June, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/recognising-the-compulsory-woman-worker/article65542943.ece?homepage=true


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