{"id":77926,"date":"2021-01-22T17:07:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T11:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=77926"},"modified":"2021-01-25T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T05:51:00","slug":"trends-in-housework-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/trends-in-housework-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in Housework valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Synopsis:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">The work women perform for the family should be given due recognition and valued at par with a men\u2019s work.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Introduction\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kamal Haasan\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Makkal<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Needhi\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Maiam<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0party recently promised salaries for housewives as a part of the party\u2019s election manifesto, has invigorated the discussion on the acknowledgment of domestic work as work.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Read more &#8211;<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wages-for-housework-an-analysis\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Wages for housework: An Analysis &#8211; ForumIAS Blog<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">State of household work in India<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">159.85 million Women stated household work as their main occupation whereas only 5.79 men referred to it as their main occupation in the 2011 census.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0a7\" data-font=\"Wingdings\" data-listid=\"10\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">As per Time Use in India-2019 Report,\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Indian women spend 299 minutes a day on unpaid domestic services<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0for household members. Whereas men spend just 97 minutes.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0a7\" data-font=\"Wingdings\" data-listid=\"10\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The economic value of services provided by women is equivalent to making\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">$612.8 billion<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0annually.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Global trends on the recognition of housework<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Male and female domains\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">have been marked separately for centuries. Market is considered as a male domain whereas home is considered as a female domain. These segregations justified husband\u2019s control over family assets.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0a7\" data-font=\"Wingdings\" data-listid=\"11\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Until 1851, Women had no right over their own earnings in or out of the home, all over the world. Their wages used to be collected by husband as it was considered his right back then.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0a7\" data-font=\"Wingdings\" data-listid=\"11\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Shortly after 1850, laws in US started allowing\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">wives with property rights on earnings from their personal labour.<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0a7\" data-font=\"Wingdings\" data-listid=\"11\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">However, after civil war economic census in US, household worked were tagged\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">as unproductive. It also excluded earning of women engaged in income producing work<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Trends in India<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0a7\" data-font=\"Wingdings\" data-listid=\"12\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Married Women (Protection of Rights) Bill, 1994<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0provided that a married woman shall be authorised to have an equal share in the property of her husband. It also provided women with a right to dispose of her share in the property by way of sale, gift, debt, will or in any other manner.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0a7\" data-font=\"Wingdings\" data-listid=\"12\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Census 2001 which had categorised those who provide household services i.e., about\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">36 crore women in India as non-workers<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0a7\" data-font=\"Wingdings\" data-listid=\"12\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">The United Progressive Alliance government<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0had suggested a monthly \u2018salary\u2019 for wife by her husband in 2012.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0a7\" data-font=\"Wingdings\" data-listid=\"12\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Supreme Court in Rajendra Singh case, 2020 observed that the services\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">offered out of love cannot be calculated with money.<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Way forward<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0a7\" data-font=\"Wingdings\" data-listid=\"12\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">There should be measurement and quantification of unpaid domestic activities of women. Their calculation in GDP so that the actual economic contribution of women is highlighted.\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">the United Nations committee on elimination of discrimination against women.<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Women on one hand are denied equal rights and on the other hand are compared to goddesses in our country.<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Matrimonial property laws<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0do give women their share but only when the marriage is broken and so there should be a bill to safeguard women\u2019s interest even during the marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis:\u00a0The work women perform for the family should be given due recognition and valued at par with a men\u2019s work.\u00a0 Introduction\u00a0\u00a0 Kamal Haasan\u2019s\u00a0Makkal\u00a0Needhi\u00a0Maiam\u00a0party recently promised salaries for housewives as a part of the party\u2019s election manifesto, has invigorated the discussion on the acknowledgment of domestic work as work.\u00a0 Read more &#8211;\u00a0Wages for housework: An Analysis&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/trends-in-housework-valuation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trends in Housework valuation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":77939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230],"tags":[1303,1396,1570],"class_list":["post-77926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","tag-eco_8","tag-soc_5","tag-wages_for_housework","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Trends-in-Housework-valuation.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704954654},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77926","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}