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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Women desert rural labour force, Tamil Nadu breaks the trend -B Sivakumar

Women desert rural labour force, Tamil Nadu breaks the trend -B Sivakumar

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published Published on Jan 12, 2016   modified Modified on Jan 12, 2016
-The Times of India

CHENNAI: Women in rural areas are increasingly withdrawing from the country's labour force. This trend is particularly evident in states like Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh where women have opted out of the labour force over the years. This is more in check in states like Tamil Nadu where the difference in gender gap between 2004 and 2011 is 8. In Karnataka it is 16 while in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh it is 15. The higher the gender gap the lower the female participation in labour force.

According to a study conducted by National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), the main reasons are lack of job opportunities for women in rural areas and the poor performance in the agriculture sector. Due to the fall in number of women in the labour force, the gender gap has increased to 25 percentage points in India between 2005 and 2011.

"Women who lost jobs in agriculture did not find place in other sectors of the economy. One of the reasons is the poor education of rural women that acts as a barrier to a smooth inter-sectoral labour mobility. Nearly 69% of rural women are either illiterate or have been educated only up to the primary level," said the study done by Sunita Sanghi, A Srija and Shirke Shrinivas Vijay of NITI Aayog.

Across rural India, between 2004-2005 and 2011-2012, barring Himachal Pradesh, all other major states experienced an increase in the gender gap between male and female labour force participation. The increase is seen more in Karnataka, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Jharkhand and Odisha.

"Agriculture, which was the primary work area of women in these states, has seen a decline. However, many women workers who have been displaced from agriculture did not find jobs in non-farm sectors. The jobs created were mostly in the construction and utilities sector where women have a small share in employment," said the study. Even in the services sector, jobs created were in transportation, storage, communication, trade, and hotels and restaurants which did not benefit women who had to leave agriculture.

"Looking at age of women who are unemployed is important to decide on decline of women in labour force," said Madras Institute of Development Studies professor D Jayaraj. "While there is a rise in real wages of women labour force after introduction of MGNREGS, younger women in the school and college going ages are migrating to towns for education. It is only the older women, who have lost employment opportunities," said Jayaraj.

Creation of more jobs in manufacturing sector in rural areas is one way to arrest the trend.

The Times of India, 10 January, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Women-desert-rural-labour-force-Tamil-Nadu-breaks-the-trend/articleshow/50515446.cms


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