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Issues and Challenges Faced by the Women Home – Based Workers in Kanyakumari District

2019

Women are equal to men in all fields and the population of women is almost half of the total population of India. Women work equally for men and earn and run their families without the support of anyone. Various legislative enactments were made to save and protect women from crimes like dowry death, infanticide, and give the concept of women empowerment. The great majority of women in India do home-based work, are self-employed, employed in household enterprises. Home-based work provides employment opportunities for women who face constraints in working outside the home, either because of family responsibilities or because of norms that limit women’s mobility. This study made an attempt to find the issues and challenges faced by the women home based workers in Kanyakumari district.

The Lifeworld of Women Domestic Workers: Some Case Studies

Integrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities

In the informal sector of metropolitan India, the participation of women domestic workers is steadily increasing. Women participate in domestic work to protect family interests and solve economic crises. Employers compel maximum work from domestic workers with the bare minimum of hospitality. If we consider domestic work on a global scale, it is a solution to the problem of women in the economic system. Domestic work is unorganized, unrewarding, and unrecognized for domestic workers. Women are migrating to domestic work in greater numbers every day, but there is a crucial need to consider their living conditions. Normally, most of the migrant population lives in slums. Migrants in domestic work and women are now a predominant research area for social sciences. This research aims to examine the lifeworld of women domestic workers.

IJMSS20Jan17-STATUS, WORKING CONDITIONS AND PROBLEMS OF WOMEN DOMESTIC WORKERS: A CASE STUDY

Domestic workers are marginalized and highly vulnerable group. The very high proportion of the domestic works are women and children. The majority of women domesticworkers belong to the socially and economically backward sectionsof the community. They are unskilled and less paid workers. They perform multiple work and responsibilities in a house hold. They work very long hours and extra work. They employed on the basis of causal, temporary,part time or full time. They do not aware about their basic rights and social justice and not able to fulfill the basic necessities of their life such as food shelter,education and health. This paper made an attempt to analyze the socioeconomic status, nature of work, working conditions and various problems of women domestic workers. In this background our research study conducted on the basis of random sampling and multistage stratified random sampling technique was applied to collect data from 80 respondents from urban area of Kadurtaluk of Chikkamagalurudistrict of Karnataka, in India.Further,this study focus major findings and to suggest suitable recommendations to overcoming the low status of women domestic workers and they are empower in all dimensions of the society.

Empowering the Women Workforce: A Study on Women Domestic Workers

Russian Law Journal

Domestic work is a work performed in or for more than one household. In India, household works are always considered to fall within the ambit or sphere of women. While it has become indispensable for both the male and female members of a family to earn for a better life the need to engage a female worker to take care of all the household chores has increased. These domestic workers form a part of unorganized workforce in the Indian population and their conditions of work are often undervalued, unprotected and unregulated. The current pandemic situation on one hand highlighted the need to keep our houses and surroundings clean and on the other hand the need to acknowledge the existence and skills of the domestic workers. They do not receive minimum pay or safe working conditions. In this backdrop this paper tries to discuss their difficulties, working conditions and to highlight on their rights to be protected.

Case Studies of Home-based Workers in Bihar, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh (India)

The study carried in the three states of Bihar, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh has brought out several interesting issues regarding home-based work. Today almost all the home- based trades are either challenged for their vulnerability in the fast changing regularised economy or highly marginalised and lost in the vast economic world. However, home-based jobs and the voices of home-based workers are hopefully not entirely unnoticed.

Working and Living Conditions of Women Domestic Workers: Evidences from Mumbai

2011

This paper, exploring primary data collected from 1510 women domestic workers in Mumbai, evidently brings out that domestic work as a feminine occupation in a global city like Mumbai is a epitome of critical deficits in human development, a vicious situation of lack of core entitlements which are required to enjoy freedom guaranteed by the democratic society. Based on the findings, it is argued why it is important to create a comprehensive social security system for domestic workers in India, against the backdrop of working and living conditions of labour belonging to this occupational category. The study covers themes such as basic demographic features, nature of services, work profile of the domestic workers, access to social security, consumption of edible items, consumption under PDS system, health, union awareness, time use, household assets and liability, habitat, attitude of domestic workers towards gender and domestic violence. [Discussion Paper No. 13].