Only-7%-of-urban-indian-women-have-paid-jobs
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Re: Only-7%-of-urban-indian-women-have-paid-jobs
#12> The International Labour Organisation says that only a fifth of adult women had a job or sought one in 2019. The key point being the majority didn't even seek one. > Dropping out of the labour force is a status symbol for upwardly mobile households, showing they are able to get by on the husband’s earnings alone. > The best thing the government can do to increase the supply of female workers is to increase the dema…
And this is where we see how Western values are forced on non-Western cultures. As you point out, women there do not want to work if they can get by on a single household salary. Aggressive capitalism has forced women into the workplace to increase supply, thereby reducing salaries. It's just astounding how the ideology is that only the Western values are the "best" for all time and space, and others haven't seen the light, we'll show em.
Re: Only-7%-of-urban-indian-women-have-paid-jobs
#13An alternative title: a vast majority of Indian husbands have to support their non-working wives. The social problem is hurting both genders albeit in different ways.
Care to explain how this is a social problem? Enduring cultures and civilizations have survived on a single source of income (mostly by the male) for a long, long time. Yet we have the audacity to claim that others have it wrong all along because they have non-Western hyper capitalistic values.
Re: Only-7%-of-urban-indian-women-have-paid-jobs
#14> The International Labour Organisation says that only a fifth of adult women had a job or sought one in 2019. The key point being the majority didn't even seek one. > Dropping out of the labour force is a status symbol for upwardly mobile households, showing they are able to get by on the husband’s earnings alone. > The best thing the government can do to increase the supply of female workers is to increase the dema…
And this is where we see how Western values are forced on non-Western cultures. As you point out, women there do not want to work if they can get by on a single household salary. Aggressive capitalism has forced women into the workplace to increase supply, thereby reducing salaries. It's just astounding how the ideology is that only the Western values are the "best" for all time and space, and others haven't seen the…
I agree
Re: Only-7%-of-urban-indian-women-have-paid-jobs
#15An alternative title: a vast majority of Indian husbands have to support their non-working wives. The social problem is hurting both genders albeit in different ways.
Your alternative title is biased.
You inserted your assumption that
* not having a paid job = non-working
* these are all wives. The title just says women
* that the husbands are unwilling participants in this. I guarantee you many husbands want their wife at home