{"id":235616,"date":"2023-04-01T20:06:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T14:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=235616"},"modified":"2023-04-02T17:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:22:30","slug":"misogyny-in-the-matrimonial-market-data-shows-indian-men-prefer-wives-without-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/misogyny-in-the-matrimonial-market-data-shows-indian-men-prefer-wives-without-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Misogyny in the matrimonial market: Data shows Indian men prefer wives without jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cMisogyny in the matrimonial market: Data shows Indian men prefer wives without jobs\u201d <\/strong>published in \u201cThe Indian Express\u201d <\/strong>on 1st April 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS1- Social empowerment. GS2- Vulnerable sections of the population<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>– Issues related to women empowerment<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>– A recent study we carried out on a large matrimonial website to understand the marital preferences of men.<\/p>\n

What are the main findings of a survey of the matrimonial websites?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Female profiles who were employed received nearly 15% fewer responses from male relative to those who were not working. The preference for non-working female partners<\/strong> holds across all education groups of female profiles.<\/p>\n

Moreover, women employed in \u201cmasculine\u201d occupations<\/strong> were 3% less likely to receive responses compared to women employed in \u201cfeminine\u201d occupations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A woman in a \u201cmasculine\u201d job who stated a preference to continue<\/strong> to work after marriage was less likely to generate male interest, relative to a woman in a \u201cfeminine\u201d job who preferred to continue <\/strong>working.<\/p>\n

Profiles of working women<\/strong> generated less interest from men even when their caste, education levels and family incomes matched those of the men.<\/p>\n

Further, the level of discrimination against working women was higher by malewith lower education levels.<\/p>\n

How does the working status of a married woman have an impact on domestic work performed by women?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In urban India, married women spend almost 7.5 times more time on domestic work<\/strong> as compared to married men. As per Time Use Survey 2019; <\/strong>women in north India spend more time on domestic work relative to women in the south.<\/p>\n

Women who are not working spend much more time on domestic work. It is more than women in \u201cfeminine\u201d occupations<\/strong> and much more than those in \u201cmasculine\u201d fields<\/strong>. These findings suggest that male-dominated occupations<\/strong> may be characterised by more inflexible working schedules. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Other evidence suggests that women in male-dominated occupations may even be considered \u201csexually impure\u201d<\/strong> due to greater interactions with men at work.<\/p>\n

What are the socio-economic impacts of marriage preferences?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The marriage preferences are likely to contribute to India\u2019s persistently low female labour force participation <\/strong>and high levels of occupational segregation by gender. <\/strong><\/p>\n

This segregation may also perpetuate the gender gap in earnings<\/strong>, because \u201cfeminine\u201d occupations pay 30% lower daily wages on average than\u00a0 \u201cmasculine\u201d occupations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cMisogyny in the matrimonial market: Data shows Indian men prefer wives without jobs\u201d published in \u201cThe Indian Express\u201d on 1st April 2023. Syllabus: GS1- Social empowerment. GS2- Vulnerable sections of the population Relevance– Issues related to women empowerment News– A recent study we carried out on a… Continue reading Misogyny in the matrimonial market: Data shows Indian men prefer wives without jobs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"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":[6259,11350,263,212,10500],"class_list":["post-235616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-women-in-workforce","tag-female-labour-force-participation","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235616","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}