With joblessness in the account of the post-pandemic episode in India, it was the women who bore most of the impact of post lockdown employment blues. As management and the workforce begins gradually to come into action, one workforce value will fail at hand and that is gender equality in the work field. Economic disordering never set well with the employment of workers overhaul especially when it came to employing women and there is still bigotry and male worker favouritism in corporate fields and other ventures.
Job growth
Job growth in post-pandemic India is supposed to be stagnant and in the foreseeable future of workplace growth and overhaul, the prospects for Indian women in the work field deems low as the majority of the women faces unemployment especially today. Surveying data from the CMIE, Centre for Monitoring Indian economy from January 2019 to April 2020, it can be concluded that the prospects of women finding employment are 9.5% lower than that of men. This is an indication of the gender gap that has widened in the post-pandemic in comparison to the pre-pandemic proportion.
Disproportionation in the labour force
The disparity between women and men is not unrivalled moreover it was expected that despite a crumbling economy, the women were to face unemployment even if the economy was flourishing only the rates would have been lower than the precedential data. However, the pandemic has been successful in deepening the existing splinters. India’s already low female’s participation in the workforce has skewed off to higher rates and it’s worrisome. With unemployment on the rise and the falling number of jobs across different sectors meant that the recovery of female workforce participation will be way worse than their male counterparts.
Periodic labour force survey
A survey from the periodic labour force by the Ministry of statistics and programme implementation shows that female unemployment in urban India was at 13.1% in the October to December quarter of 2020 which is higher than the national average of 10.3%. However, with an adverse job market, self-employment has proven to be not a retrievable option for Indian women.
