Salary to housewives vs counting women s unpaid work
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Jeemol Unni ( IANS) |
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Mon, Jan 11 2021 21:18 IST |
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Kamal Hasan s political party in Tamil Nadu promised salaries to housewives as part of its electoral campaign. And the idea was welcomed by Congress politician Shashi Tharoor. Today, the media is also celebrating the longest flight and the first from San Francisco to Bengaluru manned by an all women crew of pilots and co-pilots led by Captain Papagiri Thanmai and Captain Zoya Aggarwal.
How do these headline grabbing news compare to the long drawn out battle by feminist statisticians and economists to get better estimates of women s work in the national labour statistics? As well as document her full contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country by counting her paid and unpaid work?
Preliminary results from the most recent Labour Force Survey (LFS) done by the Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB) reveal that, for the month of September 2020, the national unemployment rate was 13.7%. For this round of the survey, there were revisions for the definition of a number of words including “employed”, “unemployed”, and “underemployed”. These revisions, according to the SIB, were done in accordance with a resolution of the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS). As a result, the September 2020 LFS will now serve as a benchmark for future LFSs. Having been conducted during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this round of the LFS also measured the impact of the pandemic on the labour force.