The women employment

The recent scheme of part time work for women of some state govt. provides a good example .The scheme realizes the recent increasing compulsion for women to seek employment due to economic necessity Women have to spend longer day outside home to work. The thrust of the scheme is this has been increased the social problems at home, the crucial problem being the care of younger children. There are no suitable and adequate facilities for children. The alternate to this situation is half-time employment for women. This would make it possible for women both to earn an income and also fulfill their responsibilities towards their children and family. Women may be free to choose between full-time and part-time employment depending upon their situation at home. The sexual division of labor and society remains intact even with women in the paid economy. Idiology adjusts to this by defining women as working mothers. And the two jobs get done for less than the price of one.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Traditionally a firm used to get a component or product from its vender or supplier but did not take the responsibility to ensure at least minimum and humane standards that a supplier would offer to its work force . Corporates argued that they did not own their suppliers and hence had no right or responsibility to interfere in their workspace..Though there is a need for legislation and imposing certain regulations,experience has proved that if firms or units are
not convinced about an issue they will follow it in letter and not in spirit.Let us take the example of pollution control.If corporate do not assume respnsibility,the opportunities for education ,for employment will affected. Itcan bringe the disparity between rich and poor.We need to move away from this mindset and indstry and govt. together nee to find solutions that will meaningfully address the problems of the community.If govt. treats them as erring children who need to be chided and controlled then businesswill behave in a rebellious manner.But if both sides treats each other as mature adults then they dialogue and a commen ,actionable agenda will emmerge.

women and economic resources

women and economic resources
THOUGH WOMEN CONTRIBUTE substaintially to the economics of the family both by way of services rendered and wages earned , yet their potential is not duly recognised and very little attention is paid to involve them directly with developmental activities and enable them to become more effective and productive. In India,agriculture still provide 42% to 45% of gross domestic product and engages 68% of the working population. Of this latter figures again anything between 20 to 50 % depending upon the part of the country are working women, whose wages value of labour is either outright denied to women or squeezed out of reckoning or is fixed at much lower rates than for males even for equal or morenarduous physical labour like sowing or transplanting or hoeing. Some minimum education ts necessary for women to assimilate the of health care progammes, nutrition and diet , norms and values of scarce economic resources and adoption to simple technology to perform some of the routine agricltural tasks more effectively.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008