{"id":94867,"date":"2021-03-15T10:32:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T05:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=94867"},"modified":"2021-03-15T19:35:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:05:58","slug":"incentivising-womens-domestic-care-and-associated-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/incentivising-womens-domestic-care-and-associated-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Incentivising Women\u2019s Domestic Care and Associated Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Synopsis: <\/strong>Addressing Women\u2019s challenges in an economy is more important than incentivising women\u2019s domestic care work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the 1991 census, women\u2019s groups undertook a campaign to ensure that women\u2019s home-based labour is getting recognised.<\/li>\n<li>Recently, in the poll-bound Tamilnadu state, various political parties announced remuneration for women\u2019s domestic and care.<\/li>\n<li>Over the years, Tamil Nadu has nurtured the growth of <strong>competitive welfarism. <\/strong>Because many believe that the success of such social security net has resulted in reducing poverty and ensuring inclusive growth.<\/li>\n<li>However, the recent proposal has been criticized. It is because Political parties resorted to <strong>Populist measures<\/strong> to win elections without paying real attention to the existing women issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>What are the issues of Women that need priority in Tamil Nadu?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First, <\/strong>Women working as domestic workers and housekeeping staff are still not recognised as Workforce. The lack of recognition of domestic workers as a workforce forces them to accept poor remuneration, abuses etc.,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second, <\/strong>increasing<strong> female indebtedness.<\/strong> The state has allowed and enabled the growth of microfinance in the state, which led to a high level of female indebtedness. Mostly, the loans are taken for a range of social and reproductive purposes such as Children\u2019s education, hospital expenses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third, <\/strong>the vulnerable conditions of Women in employment have not been addressed by the state yet. For example, denial of equal pay for equal work, sexual harassment at the workplace, lack of social security net, etc.,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fourth, <\/strong>the state has been promoting liquor sales despite many demands from the Women groups to make liquor sales illegal. Spending on liquor drinking reduces the household\u2019s financial ability to spend on basic goods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rather than paying wages for women&#8217;s domestic care work, the state should address core Women issues and challenges and empower them to become a contributor in development from being a welfare recipient.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/tamil-nadu-elections-2021-homemakers-salary-women-7225944\/\">Indian Express<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7t1hh5XhV3\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wages-for-housework-an-analysis\/\">Wages for housework: An Analysis<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Wages for housework: An Analysis&#8221; &#8212; Free UPSC IAS Preparation For Aspirants\" src=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wages-for-housework-an-analysis\/embed\/#?secret=txpzyyMeVc#?secret=7t1hh5XhV3\" data-secret=\"7t1hh5XhV3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: Addressing Women\u2019s challenges in an economy is more important than incentivising women\u2019s domestic care work. Background In the 1991 census, women\u2019s groups undertook a campaign to ensure that women\u2019s home-based labour is getting recognised. Recently, in the poll-bound Tamilnadu state, various political parties announced remuneration for women\u2019s domestic and care. Over the years, Tamil&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/incentivising-womens-domestic-care-and-associated-issues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Incentivising Women\u2019s Domestic Care and Associated Issues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"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":[1396],"class_list":["post-94867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-soc_5","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700773965,"cached_date":1704940098},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94867","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\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}