Unpaid Work by Women: A State-level Analysis of Evidence from Time-use Survey
- Title
- Unpaid Work by Women: A State-level Analysis of Evidence from Time-use Survey
- Creator
- Chakraborty A.; Sutradhar R.
- Description
- Low and declining female labour force participation in India over the past two decades has turned attention to the high unpaid work time spent by women. The question, however, remains whether women spend more time on unpaid work because there are not enough jobs or whether it is time spent on unpaid work that is holding them back from participation in the labour force. Against this backdrop, the present article explores Indias nationally representative time-use survey conducted by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) to estimate factors that explain variations in time spent by women in unpaid work at the state level. The results show that structural transformation, entailing a reduction in employment in agriculture and an increase in the share of industries in state GDP, does not necessarily entail any reduction in unpaid time spent by women if the technology embodied in industrialisation is not gender-friendly. Worryingly, progress in female literacy recorded by states is no guarantee of a reduction in unpaid work by women. However, a gender-friendly atmosphere does make a difference in the reduction in unpaid work reported by women. Similarly, targeted public policy intervention does relax the constraints that women face at home, with a positive effect on unpaid work time. 2024 Institute for Human Development.
- Source
- Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol-17, No. 3, pp. 461-476.
- Date
- 2023-01-01
- Publisher
- Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd
- Subject
- female empowerment; structural transformation; time-use survey; Unpaid work
- Coverage
- Chakraborty A., Department of Economics, CHRIST (Deemed to be) University, Karnataka, Bangalore, India; Sutradhar R., Department of Economics, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, Meghalaya, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 9737030
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Chakraborty A.; Sutradhar R., “Unpaid Work by Women: A State-level Analysis of Evidence from Time-use Survey,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 24, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/13854.