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India: 53% Indian women do not step out of the house even once a day: Reports

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International Women’s Day 2023: Women’s labor-force participation in India has been relatively low, with the country ranking near the bottom of several gender gap indices. Women are especially underrepresented in the industrial and manufacturing sectors, which are the backbone of our economy. Where are the women if they are not present at work? According to a new study, at home.

According to a paper titled ‘Gender gap in mobility outside home in urban India,’ published on Friday in Science Direct’s journal Travel Behaviour and Society, nearly half of women in urban India say they did not leave their homes even once on a given day.

 

According to the study, only about 47% of female respondents reported leaving their homes at least once a day on a typical day. This means that on an average day, approximately 53% of people did not leave their homes.

81% of educated women reported making at least one trip outside their homes. According to the study, once they leave the education system, their chances of leaving the house are determined by employment outcomes.

Also Read: International Women’s Day 2023: 5 Common Diseases That Affect​ Women More Than Men

The study is based on the findings of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation’s 2019 Time Use Survey (TUS), which covered over 1.38 lakh households across India. Goel’s research focuses on urban India, with a sample size of approximately 84,207 women and 88,914 men.

Goel calculated the mobility rate using the TUS dataset, which is defined as the percentage of respondents reporting at least one trip outside their homes per day.

Many traditional practises still exist in rural areas, where women live as they did decades or even centuries ago. A lack of proper education may be cited as a major reason why these practises persist in these societies.

However, when many people from these rural areas migrate to cities and their children receive modern education, the roles and traditions are difficult to break and continue to exist. This demonstrates the rigidity of such traditional ideas on our psyche and explains the disparity in gender mobility.

 

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