Paper Details

Name: Srinivasa. K.R.
Country: India

Year: 2025
Volume: Volume-12, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 571-577
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22297707

According to International Labour Organisation (ILO) report women are 50 per cent of the world’s population doing 70 per cent of the world’s work but receive only 10 per cent of the income and own less than 1 per cent of the property. In most of the countries the average earnings of the women are lower than men. Their representation in gainful employment is comparatively lower. Women have confined their activities to selected professionals such as education, nursing, medicine and office work. Very few women enter into fields like industry, engineering, commerce and trade. According to 2001 census, there are 935 women for every 1000 men in the country making the female population about 48 per cent of total population. The working population constitutes around 36 per cent of total population and women constitute about 32 per cent of the working population. Majority of working women are crowded in the Unorganized Sector.