sunya datasheet - Sheet1 Flashcards
Gender Wage Gap - Global Gap
Globally Women paid 20% less (WEF), Women only make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men (UN Women Worldwide)
Gender Wage Gap - Global Gender Gap Report (India)
India in 2021 ranked 140th among 156 nations
Gender Wage Gap - India’s Gender Gap
Women paid 34% less than men (WEF), Income of women in India is only one-fifth of men (ADP institute, 2021), Women collectively lost Rs 59.11 lakh crore in earnings in 2020 (OXFAM)
Wage Differentials - Wage Categories
Women consist of 60% of the lowest wage category, Women consist of only 15% of top wage earners
Women at Workplace - Ranking (Women Participation Rate)
84th out of 87 countries (2012)
Women at Workplace - Sector-wise breakdown
Agriculture (Oxfam Report)
e 80% of all economically active women
* 33% Agrilabour
* 48% self-employed farmers
e 20% in the secondary sector
e 18% in services
More than 95% of India’s working women are
informal workers (ILO)
Women at Workplace - Informal Workers
More than 95% of India’s working women are informal workers (ILO)
Female Labour Force Participation Rate (F-LFPR) - Trend
Falling steeply in the last 2 decades — from about 30.5% in 2000 to 21.1% in 2019 (pre-pandemic) and 18.6% in 2020 (post-pandemic) (ILO)
Female Labour Force Participation Rate (F-LFPR) - World Average
49%(F); 75%(M)
Female Labour Force Participation Rate (F-LFPR) - India Ranking
India ranks 121 out of 131 countries on female LFPR (ILO)
Earnings - Monthly Earnings in India
According to IMF, In India, 82% of males and 92% of females earn less than Rs 10000 per month (As per the State of Working India report)
Crimes against Women - Increase in Crime rates
30% increase in 2021 (National Commission for Women data), 8.3% decrease in 2020 (NCRB Data)
Crimes against Women - Domestic Violence
NFHS-5, Karnataka ranks no.1, 32% of ever-married Indian women experienced spousal physical, sexual, or emotional violence (Nearly 1/3rd), Only 14% brought the issue up, UN raised concern about increased cases and named it as ‘Hidden Pandemic’
Crimes against Women - Rape
Rape is the 4th most common crime against women in India, India recorded an average of 77 rape cases daily in 2020 (NCRB)
Crimes against Women - Missing Women (UNFPA State of World Population report)
World- Doubled from 61 million in 1970 to 142.6 millions in 2020, India- 45.8 million
Credit
Credit penetration to women is 12% in 2021, 79% of women-run enterprises are self-financed, Only 4.4% borrowed money from a financial institution or received assistance from the government, Women run about 8 million MSMEs, 97.5% of women enterprises are in the micro sectors, Women entrepreneurs account for 20% of all MSMEs (NSSO data), 67 million Indian women are members of six million SHGs (World Bank)
Politics women
Represent 10.5% of the total members of the Parliament (ECI data), In last 75 years, women’s representation in Lok Sabha has not even increased by 10%, 17th Lok sabha has 78 women MPs (highest in history of Lok Sabha), 14% in Lok Sabha (4.4% in 1952), India is still worse than 140 countries in the representation of women in Parliament, World Average: 24.6% representation, Global proportion of women parliamentarians
Contribution to GDP
18% (World Bank Data 2020), McKinsey Global Institute- India could add $770 billion to its GDP by 2025 by offering equal opportunities to women
Economic Discrimination
2.4 bn women globally do not have same economic rights as men (World Bank), Unpaid work: 66%, Wage Gap: 34%, Women composition at board member level:11%, Board Level : Only 11% of women present at board level in companies, Agri Census 2015-16: 13.87% women have land ownership
Women as Entrepreneurs
Not more than 14% of business establishments in India are run by female entrepreneurs (NSSO), Google-Bain report estimated that women owned 13.5-15.7 million or 20% of all enterprises, Percentage in Agriculture sector: 34%, Women as Startup founders: 9% (NASSCOM)
Women and Education
UNICEF Data, Worldwide, 129 million girls are out of school, Only 49% of countries have achieved gender parity in primary education, At the secondary level, the gap widens: 42% of countries have achieved gender parity in lower secondary education, and 24% in upper secondary education, We have closed 3rd Education Gap recently, Literacy rate among women is 65.46% (2011 census)
Population - Composition
0-14 years: 26.31%, 15-24 years: 17.51%, 25-54 years: 41.56%, 55-64 years: 7.91%, 65 years and over: 6.72% (2011 Census)
Population - Rural-Urban Population
Urban: 31.16%, Rural: 68.84% (2011 Census)
Population - Median Age
Total: 28.1 years, Male: 27.5 years, Female: 28.9 years (2011 Census)