{"id":194612,"date":"2022-07-07T17:13:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T11:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=194612"},"modified":"2022-07-07T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T11:46:07","slug":"shahida-aura-stories-of-two-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/shahida-aura-stories-of-two-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Shahida, Aura & Stories Of Two Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article \u201cShahida, Aira & Stories of Two markets\u201d published in the Times of India on 7th<\/sup> July 2022.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3 – Inclusive Growth<\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>Female Labour Force Participation<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: In recent times, a number of surveys from the government and from private organisations like CMIE were released about the women labour force participation rate.<\/p>\n

What is the situation wrt women labour force participation rate in India?
\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Indian women\u2019s labour force participation is one of the lowest<\/strong> in the world.<\/p>\n

Further, jobs done by most women are found to be in the informal sector.<\/p>\n

What are the issues in women\u2019s labor force participation?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Most of the women do work out of compulsion<\/strong>, not by choice<\/strong>. For example, Shahida worked by compulsion because her husband fell chronically ill and could work no more. So Shahida had to find work.<\/p>\n

There is a widening gap in women\u2019s work participation<\/strong>. The reasons are complex.<\/p>\n

The government cannot reduce these gaps through job reservations or tax incentives to employers for hiring women because the problem is deeper.<\/p>\n

Way Forward<\/strong><\/h5>\n

(A)\u00a0 Role models<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Story of Shahida, a 21-years old self-employed e-rickshaw driver who lives in eastern Uttar Pradesh. <\/strong><\/p>\n

She received a day-long training to drive the e-rickshaw and change its tyres with the help of an NGO. Now she runs a e-rickshaw on rent.<\/p>\n

– Aura, a cancer survivor,<\/strong><\/p>\n

She emigrated from Colombia to the US. She has a fulltime job, as a cleaner in a building at an educational facility. She also has social security like health insurance.<\/p>\n

Further, on weekends, she cleans houses to supplement her income.<\/p>\n

(B)<\/strong> There should be a change in gender norms<\/strong> that allow and expect a woman to take charge of her life<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article \u201cShahida, Aira & Stories of Two markets\u201d published in the Times of India on 7th July 2022. Syllabus: GS3 – Inclusive Growth Relevance: Female Labour Force Participation News: In recent times, a number of surveys from the government and from private organisations like CMIE were released about… Continue reading Shahida, Aura & Stories Of Two Markets<\/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":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-194612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704922287},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194612","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=194612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}