🔆 Women Economic Empowerment :
✅ Women's economic empowerment refers to the ability for women to enjoy their right to control and benefit from the resources, assets, income and their own time, as well as the ability to manage risk and improve their economic status and well being.
✅Status in India: Women in India represent 29 percent of the labour force, down from 35 percent in 2004. Nearly half of India’s women do not have a bank or savings accounts for their own use, and 60 percent of women have no valuable assets to their name. The IMF estimates that equal participation of women in the workforce will increase India's GDP by 27 percent.
✅Some of the challenges faced by women in this domain are: Restrictions in career for women: Women’s household work (Care economy) is unpaid and undervalued; Pink-collared jobs; Feminization of agriculture and informal sector; Entrepreneurship as a career option is not promoted.
✅ Inequity at workplace: Salary differential; Creche facilities; Maternity leave; Sexual harassment at workplace; Glass-ceiling effect; Continuous discrimination regarding women’s share in parental/ancestral property; Poor implementation of Sexual Harassment laws.
✅ However, despite several adversities, some Indian companies have leveraged women power as their key workforce. Some excellent examples of such women cooperatives in India include Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad; Amul and Kudumbshree.
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✅ Women's economic empowerment refers to the ability for women to enjoy their right to control and benefit from the resources, assets, income and their own time, as well as the ability to manage risk and improve their economic status and well being.
✅Status in India: Women in India represent 29 percent of the labour force, down from 35 percent in 2004. Nearly half of India’s women do not have a bank or savings accounts for their own use, and 60 percent of women have no valuable assets to their name. The IMF estimates that equal participation of women in the workforce will increase India's GDP by 27 percent.
✅Some of the challenges faced by women in this domain are: Restrictions in career for women: Women’s household work (Care economy) is unpaid and undervalued; Pink-collared jobs; Feminization of agriculture and informal sector; Entrepreneurship as a career option is not promoted.
✅ Inequity at workplace: Salary differential; Creche facilities; Maternity leave; Sexual harassment at workplace; Glass-ceiling effect; Continuous discrimination regarding women’s share in parental/ancestral property; Poor implementation of Sexual Harassment laws.
✅ However, despite several adversities, some Indian companies have leveraged women power as their key workforce. Some excellent examples of such women cooperatives in India include Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad; Amul and Kudumbshree.
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