The hardcore notions of patriarchy since the post vedic period surmounted over the heads of women, the yards of over brahmanized rituals and impression of sinful widowhood forged over women, can’t be diminished from the brains of contemporary civilization.
A belief that the new centuries provide a new culture to women, a new ray of hope and action and a custodian of her own laws let women to drape the past experiences in the fall of her saree and step outside under the disguised blue cloud.
But patriarchy did the smart work, obviously new women would surely rebel if society tries to burn her talent and aspirations with the morning ‘paratha’ and dinner ‘dal’.
So the young women was allowed to earn and follow her dreams, but partially.
Taking readers away from the never ending debate today we’ll be sharing the concept of wage gap and reality.
What is WAGE GAP?
The gender pay gap or gender wage gap is the average difference between the remuneration for men and women who are working. Women are generally considered to be paid less than men.
There are 2 concepts which are in the implicit vicinity of the society:-
1. PINK COLLARIZATION – Pink collarrization means adjusting woman in few occupations which are considered as of low status for example Air hostess, receptionist, secretaries etc..,
2. GLASS CEILING – A glass ceiling is a metaphor used to represent an invisible barrier that keeps a given demographic from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy.
One of the most popular Indian Feminist Karuna Ahmad gave, FOUR TRENDS IN WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT
Clustering women in few occupations.
Clustering either in low status occupation.
In lower rungs of prestigious profession.
women receive lower salary than men.
Limiting the ideas to Indian perspective, there is a wide notion of FEMINISATION OF AGRICULTURE, So what it is?
The term ‘Feminization of agriculture’ refers to increasing participation of women in agricultural activities. An increase in the percentage of women in agricultural labour force relative to men, either because of more women are working or because of fewer men are working in agriculture. A recent report published by NSSO in 2019 reveals that there is a proportional increase of women in agriculture sector but the major backlog is that they are not considered as farmers because according to definition provided by NSSO only those individuals who own some amount of land and work on it are considered as farmers.
This is the rural preservative, brushing over the urban areas, in urban areas major women labour force is concentrated in unorganized sector which gives no statistical data but in organised sector women hold positions as teachers and bankers.
According to recent salary index survey women earn 19 percent less as compared to men and the gap has narrowed merely by 1 percent in last 20 years.
Amidst lockdown, a study published by Azim premji institute 71 percent women lost job as compared to 59 percent men. This further bridges the gap between two.
There is environment of severe stress faced by women amidst this lost providing major hurdles to women development.
As a concluding note, Indian government since 2000s providing credit facility in a hope of women-led development in the country but a major gap in distribution of earning not only haunts the economic development but encapsulates social development.