Report: Women Workers Unpaid Even in Paid Contracts

Women Workers Unpaid Even in Paid Contracts. Women Workers Are Compelled to Do Unpaid Work Even in Paid Contracts. A Study Across Three States Shows Disturbing Patterns.

• A report by Shankar Gopalakrishnan, Project Director, at Institute of Social Sciences with
• MS Selvaraj (Tamil Nadu)
• Vinod Badoni (Uttarakhand)
• Anita Juneja, Ramendra Kumar (Delhi)1

In a study across four regions of three states, the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, has found that women workers encounter a pattern of exploitation in the form of the extraction of unpaid labour even within occupations where they are paid.

In a study across four regions of three states, the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, has found that women workers encounter a pattern of exploitation in the form of the extraction of unpaid labour even within occupations where they are paid. While public discussion, to the extent it has occurred at all, has largely focused on unpaid labour in women’s own homes and family enterprises – an area which this study also touches upon – the fact that women workers have to face such exploitation even within paid workplaces has not been adequately highlighted in research and policy. Given that working class women are in any case among the most superexploited and marginalised segments of the population, these findings are particularly disturbing.

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