-The India Forum A good approach to build a new framework for measuring women’s work better is for the National Statistical Office to accept the definitions and categories recommended in 2013 by the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians. The female labour force participation rate of women (LFPR) in India is one of the lowest in the world, and falling. It is even lower than that in neighbouring countries. The reasons for...
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Over 500 MGNREGA Workers Protest Against Delay in Wage Payments at Jantar Mantar
-TheWire.in The workers spoke about the persistent delays in wage payments, how they did not get work when they demanded it, and how no compensation was provided when they were injured or even killed at the workplace. New Delhi: More than 500 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) workers from across 15 states gathered at Jantar Mantar in the national capital on Wednesday, August 3, to protest against the delayed...
More »What does 5 yrs of school give? 1960s-born Indian women learnt more than 1990s kids, says study -Nikhil Rampal
-ThePrint.in women born in 1960s with 5 years of schooling almost 100% literate, while figure was around 40% for 90s-born women, says working paper by US-based Center for Global Development. New Delhi: There’s no doubt that India has made immense progress in its literacy rate, which rose from about 14 per cent at the time of Independence to 74 per cent in the 2011 census. But, has the quality of school education...
More »How to Curtail Double Burden that Keeps women out of Paid Work -Shirin Akhter & C Saratchand
-Newsclick.in The authors propose a project to increase the long-term employment of women that decisively breaks from neoliberalism. Like other countries where the neo-liberal project is ascending, India is witnessing a rise in unemployment and a falling labour force participation of women. Proponents of the neo-liberal project claim that women’s labour force participation falls in periods of rising family incomes. The question, however, remains that even if family incomes were rising (though...
More »MGNREGA ‘Under Attack’? Rural Workers Demand Increased Budgetary Allocations -Ronak Chhabra
-Newsclick.in At the call of NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, rural workers from over 15 states started a three-day protest at Jantar Mantar on Tuesday. New Delhi: Hundreds of rural workers from across the country gathered here at Jantar Mantar on Tuesday, as part of a three-day protest to press for adequate funding for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme. The protest has been called by one NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, a...
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