REPORT WRITING

TOPIC: WOMEN AS A LABOUR

SWOT ANALYSIS
STRENGTH PART
AIM/OBJECTIVE
Women as a labour: strength
Female labour has been an important segment of economy as well as their empowerment.
The observance of the International Women's Year in the last quarter of the 20th century was
a historic landmark in the calendar of women's progress. Frankly speaking, it was in
recognition of crucial importance and need that women's participation has always been
necessary for the success of social and economic development. Over the years, the main
objective of the policies of the Government of India with regard to female labour has been to
remove the handicaps under which they work, to strengthen their bargaining capacity, to
improve their wages and working conditions, to augment their skills and to open up better
employment facilities for them. The main objective of the report writing is women working
as a labour lead to own empowerment and also to development of socio-economic system.
Another object of the report is labour women is boon to the economics.
ASSUMPTIONS
With the changing Socio-economic scenario, women's productive roles have assumed new
dimensions. Creating an enabling environment of equal opportunity and treatment in the
labour for both women and men, would also contribute tremendously to poverty reduction,
the achievement of social justice.
1. socio-economic development
2. prevent discrimination
3. rapid economic growth
4. women empowerment
The educational, technical and working skills are assumed to be equal to men if not more
than them. And also the instances in the case are based on the assumption that the economy
is stable i.e. there are no economic problems like recession, boom or economic depression.
OBSERVATION
The global financial and economic crisis has highlighted the need for greater gender equality
in the labour market to counter vulnerability to economic shocks and to support recovery and
poverty reduction. Investing in womens full economic potential is critical to increasing
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productivity and economic growth, and supporting the move towards a more balanced and
sustainable development. Between 1980 and 2008, the rate of female labour force
participation rate (LFPR) increased from 50.2 to 51.7 per cent while the male rate decreased
slightly from 82.0 to 77.7 per cent1.
ANALYSIS
More and more countries realized the potential of women in workplace. Giving women a
chance to contribute to the economic welfare of themselves and their families through labour
force engagement has been proven to bring gains in nearly all areas of development. The
newly industrializing countries _ Hong Kong (China), Republic of Korea, Singapore and
Taiwan (China) were highly utilizing the labour women potential in their rapid growth.
Women contributes substantially to economic welfare through large amount of unpaid work,
such as child-rearing and household tasks, which often remains unseen and unaccounted for
in GDP2. The IMP other international organisations strengthen the role of women in working
place. There several policies supporting and demanding for labour women. Beyond economic
benefits women participation in forced is pathway to declining discrimination and increasing
their empowerment. Labour force participation of poorly educated women appears to be
driven by necessity rather than opportunities. Labour women participation in India is low
when compared to other countries (they are permitted households duties). The government
also taken protective measures for safety of labour women, for that concern many act and
statues are incorporated, which are Section 66(1) (b) of the Factories Act, 1948 states that no
woman shall be required or allowed to work in any factory except between the hours of 6
a.m. and 7 p.m etc3.
CONCLUSION
The empowerment women that touches on many different aspects of change in womens
lives, each important in themselves, but also in their inter-relationships with other aspects. It
touches on womens sense of self-worth and social identity and economic participation etc.
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Women in labour markets, measuring progress and identifying challenges, international labour
organization, Geneva, march, 2010
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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labour Force Participation during Indias Economic Boom
Stephan Klasen University of Gottingen and IZA
Janneke Pieters IZA
Discussion Paper No. 6395 February 2012
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http://labour.nic.in/content/division/women-labour.php

economic empowerment of women is closely related with the empowerment of women.

Labour women are strength to economic and their empowerment.
SUBMITTED BY
M. Shireesha
Roll no: 2015065
2nd semester