We have this tendency in our culture that women are made to serve and she has to serve from her birth till her death. This indicates that women earn only one-tenth of the world’s income despite doing two-third of the work. This income which is paid to women is only to those who are earning out in some firms or companies but what about those women who are doing house chores works, taking care of children, cooking and many more house chore works. This the sad reality of our world.
In India, men spend 80 per cent of their working hours on paid work., whereas 84 per cent of women are doing unpaid work. when we come to working hours of unpaid work we will find that Indian women spend more than 243 minutes in a day almost ten times more than the man.
During this pandemic, we find that more women were unemployed and this leads to more unpaid work conditions. 40 per cent of GDP is contributed by unpaid work done by women. Four out of ten women have lost their jobs during this pandemic. The situation is more worst in the rural area than in urban areas. This unemployment or unpaid work leads to a drastic increase in poverty among women poverty don’t mean only financial one but also relates to physical, mental, emotional and social. The big reason behind the unpaid work even if they are working all day is due to lack of educational opportunity and even patriarchal society this doesn’t allow women to create her own space and lead to the summation of her to other and treat her like unpaid servants.
Albeit our government is trying to solve the issue of universal income system and have a keen view. But is this going to work? First, we need to recognise the problems or hindrance which is faced by women due to which are doing unpaid work and find the solution to make equal paid jobs for all.