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Women and work -Diya Dutta

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published Published on Oct 16, 2020   modified Modified on Oct 20, 2020

-The Indian Express

How unpaid labour by women subsidises the Indian economy

The latest time-use survey on women’s and men’s work has just been released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), albeit 20 years after the first time-use survey was conducted. We must congratulate the NSSO for successfully completing this survey as this was much needed. Some startling findings have emerged regarding the work done by men and women — the NSSO report states that women perform 10 times more unpaid care work than men. Incredible as this sounds, the information is not new to those working on these issues for decades. Through numerous surveys and other studies, it had been estimated for long that women are putting in far more hours of hard labour in the form of paid and unpaid work than men. The irony is that while the entire neo-liberal economy is running on the backs of the hard toil put in by women in terms of care work — cooking, cleaning, looking after children, the old and infirm, tending to family farm and family business, and other such work — this backbreaking unpaid labour is neither recognised nor accounted for in systems of national accounting. In turn, women’s work is not considered as productive labour and, therefore, they are denied equal wages, social protection, etc.

The NSSO report states that women spend 238 minutes (four hours) more on unpaid work each day than men in India. This is enormous amount of work undertaken by women. Men also tend to take on the kinds of household work that fit within their formal work schedules, while women do not generally possess the choice of not performing household tasks even if there are other constraints. Thus, men would typically do those care jobs which require a person to step out of the household, such as fetching water, marketing, etc. while the more heavy lifting jobs are left for the women. The unequal distribution of unpaid care work, effectively, allows men to participate in the labour market while limiting a woman’s capacity to do the same, even though men and women in a household spend the same total amount of time “working”.

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The Indian Express, 16 October, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/women-unpaid-labour-nsso-survey-economy-subsidy-6757904/


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