{"id":205990,"date":"2022-09-15T18:37:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=205990"},"modified":"2022-09-15T18:37:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:07:12","slug":"india-discrimination-report-2022-tale-of-women-workers-rapid-exit-from-workforce-sliding-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-discrimination-report-2022-tale-of-women-workers-rapid-exit-from-workforce-sliding-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"India Discrimination Report 2022: Tale of women workers: Rapid exit from workforce, sliding earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cTale of women workers: Rapid exit from workforce, sliding earnings\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 15th September 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oxfam India has released a report titled &#8216;India Discrimination Report 2022&#8217;. The report is based on the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">data from the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the key findings of the India Discrimination Report 2022?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Women: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/labour-force-participation-rate-lfpr\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) for women in India declined from 42.7% in 2004-05 to 25.1% in 2021. This shows the withdrawal of women from the workforce despite rapid economic growth during the same period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 In 2019-20, 60% of all males aged 15 and above had regularly salaried or self-employed jobs; the rate for females was 19%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 For regular, self-employment in urban areas, the average earning for males was Rs 15,996. It was less than half of that \u2014 Rs 6,626 \u2014 for women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Overall discrimination in wages for people from SC, ST and Muslim communities declined in regular\/salaried jobs, it increased for women in this period \u2014 from 67.2% in 2004-05 to 75.7% in 2019-20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>SC\/ST:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mean income for people from SC or ST communities with regular employment in urban areas was Rs 15,312 in 2019-20 against Rs 20,346 for those from the \u2018general\u2019 category. This means the general category is earning 33% more than SCs or STs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Muslims<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: 68.3% of Muslims in urban areas faced discrimination in 2019-20 \u2014 up from 59.3% in 2004-05.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cTale of women workers: Rapid exit from workforce, sliding earnings\u201d published in Indian Express on 15th September 2022. What is the News? Oxfam India has released a report titled &#8216;India Discrimination Report 2022&#8217;. The report is based on the data from the Union Ministry of Statistics and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-discrimination-report-2022-tale-of-women-workers-rapid-exit-from-workforce-sliding-earnings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India Discrimination Report 2022: Tale of women workers: Rapid exit from workforce, sliding earnings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,1305,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-205990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704780601},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205990","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}