{"id":182907,"date":"2022-05-05T20:42:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=182907"},"modified":"2022-05-05T20:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:12:58","slug":"this-is-what-keeps-educated-women-out-of-the-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/this-is-what-keeps-educated-women-out-of-the-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what keeps educated women out of the workforce\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News<\/span><\/b>: Recently, an <\/span>International Deloitte survey report<\/span><\/b> was released. The survey finds that there is a trend of low and declining levels of women\u2019s workforce participation in economic activities. Further, the trend has been worsened during the pandemic years<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the challenges in front of women to participate in economic activities?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

First, there are various factors which <\/span>influence the decisions<\/span><\/b> of <\/span>non-working women.<\/span><\/b> Second, they can act as <\/span>demand and supply side drivers<\/span><\/b>. Some of them are mentioned as below:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a <\/span>social environment<\/span><\/b>, wherein the boys are expected to be the <\/span>breadwinners<\/span><\/b> while girls are expected to perform functions of <\/span>care and reproductive work<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are rigid workplace demands, lack of sustained family\/social support, personal responsibility to guide children and ensure their security. This reflects absence of good-quality childcare, counselling and mentoring.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How do these factors play out in the lives of women?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

The situations create a <\/span>social environment<\/span><\/b> for girls wherein they go to school and college while they are waiting to marry. In case of working women, they have to face periods of hectic work interspersed by spells of no work.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Domestic situations<\/span><\/b> like concerns over the security of school-going children, and critical moments like \u201cstudents being at the end of school and college entry\u201d force the working women to give up the job.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The situations impact the <\/span>choices of women<\/span><\/b>. The women are driven out of<\/span> full-time jobs <\/span><\/b>from the workplaces. They shift to voluntary work or paid activities (often intermittent work) including teaching, home-based marketing, consulting, tutoring etc.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Way Forward<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

There is a requirement of providing the <\/span>stronger supportive infrastructures<\/span><\/b> to women to ensure they work consistently during pandemics or otherwise.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/b> The post is based on an article \u201cThis is what keeps educated women out of the workforce<\/strong>\u201d published in the Indian Express<\/strong> on 05<\/strong><\/span>th<\/strong> May 2022<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: Recently, an International Deloitte survey report was released. The survey finds that there is a trend of low and declining levels of women\u2019s workforce participation in economic activities. Further, the trend has been worsened during the pandemic years\u00a0 What are the challenges in front of women to participate in economic activities?\u00a0 First, there are… Continue reading This is what keeps educated women out of the workforce\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,10500],"class_list":["post-182907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704894487},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}