Over 3 occasions extra ladies in part-time jobs than males: National Statistical Office

The employment fee of females at all-India stage for age teams 25-49 years residing in a family with a minimum of one little one below 3 years of age is lower than their employment fee in a family with no little one below 3 years of age throughout 2017-18-2019-20. For males, nonetheless, presence of a kid below age 3 years within the households doesn’t appear to make any distinction to their employment fee, as per the most recent labour indicators launched by National Statistical Office Tuesday.

Also, extra females work part-time than males throughout all age teams in each rural and concrete areas. The proportion of employed individuals working part-time within the 46-59 years age group in any respect India stage was greater than 10 per cent between 2017-18 to 2019-20 whereas within the age group of above 60 years, the proportion of employed individuals working part-time was greater than 15 per cent, the NSO mentioned in its Working Paper on Compilation of Labour Indicators of Minimum Set of Gender Indicators.

“There has been rapid growth in part-time work in the past few decades in developed economies. This trend is related to the increase in female labour force participation, but also results from policies attempting to raise labour market flexibility in reaction to changing work organisation within industries and to the growth of the services sector. Of concern to policymakers in the apparent move towards more flexible working arrangements is the risk that such working arrangements may be less economically secure and less stable than full-time employment,” it mentioned.

Rural females working part-time within the working age inhabitants (15+ years) in any respect India falls between 23-24 per cent as in comparison with 7-8 per cent for rural males throughout 2017-18 to 2019-20. For city females working part-time in the identical age group at all-India stage, it falls between 15-16 per cent as in comparison with 3-4 per cent for city male throughout the identical interval.

In each rural and concrete areas, half timers as a proportion of complete employed are extra within the 60+ age-group amongst males and concrete females, the report mentioned.

It mentioned that in developed international locations, policymakers have promoted part-time work in an try and redistribute working time in international locations of excessive unemployment, thus decreasing politically delicate unemployment charges with out requiring a rise within the complete variety of hours labored.

The employment fee of staff residing in a family with no little one below age three years rose to 61.2 per cent in 2019-20 from 58.37 per cent in 2017-18 within the 26-49 years age group and 59.6 per cent in 2018-19.

The proportion of employed individuals who’re employers within the 15+ age group stood at 2.02 per cent in 2019-20, down from 2.17 per cent in 2018-19 however up from 1.91 per cent in 2017-18.