Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2017

Occupational Pattern of Women in Workforce in Punjab (INDIA)

Preeti Sharma

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 Many reports show that Indian women who do work don’t have great jobs. More than one third is unpaid helpers, as opposed to just 11 percent of working men. Women are also over represented in works of low productivity, agriculture and small–scale manufacturing units. Only 6 percent of employed women get formal benefits like pensions or maternity leave.  Illiterate women are more possible to be in the labour force than educated women, though participation is more among women who are high–school pass outs. The correlation between female participation and income is direct. The richer a family of women is, the less likely she is to work. Women have a tendency to work in less productive jobs than men, as in many developed and developing countries (World Bank 2012). This paper is based on a preliminary examination of female occupational participation covering the period 1981–2011 .It was felt necessary to probe into the critical policy question: are the majority of women workers in Punjab relegated to performing hard labour or do they continue to be engaged in low productivity–cum low social status–cum low pay work?

 

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Preeti Sharma, Occupational Pattern of Women in Workforce in Punjab (INDIA), INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-12 | December-2017

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