Sponsor Area

Employment : Growth, Informalisation And Other Issues

Question
CBSEENEC11009374

Compared to urban women, more rural women are found working. Why?

Solution

In rural areas people cannot stay at home as their economic conditions may not allow them to do so. Compared to females more males are found working. In urban areas, for every 100 urban females, only about 14 are engaged in some economic activity. In rural areas, for every 100 rural women about 30 participate in employment market. In urban areas men are able to earn high income, families discourage female members from taking up jobs. In rural areas large number of women belonging to the families of landless labourers, marginal farmers and members of the families of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes go out of their homes to find the job because of very low standard of living.