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Examine the economic aspects of gender and the invisibility of women’s work.​

Answer 1

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Debates on budgetary policies related to women’s work seldom treat the statistical invisibility of women’s work in the care economy or the unpaid economic activity of women at the household and community levels. Global estimates suggest that US $ 16 trillion of global output is not reflected or captured in official statistics and, of this, US $ 11 trillion constitutes the non-monetised, invisible work of women. Although a certain degree of statistical invisibility of unpaid work in the economy is a global phenomenon, it is particularly predominant in India and other South Asian nations due to the orthodox socio-cultural milieu. Legacies of adverse intra-household gender relations inhibit women from contributing to the economy and getting their due share of economic benefits in many countries, particularly developing ones. Gender budgeting, that is, the analysis of the impact of policies and the budget on women, is being done in more and more countries all over the world to capture these issues of urgent concern.

The seriousness of the failure to meaningfully pursue gender budgeting for women workers is obvious when one analyses the Statement of Gender Budgeting published in the Union budget of India for 2008-09 (Expenditure Budget, Volume 1, 2008-09, p 56-64). The estimates reveal that there is no budgetary allocation under the Ministry of Labour and Employment specifically targeted at women workers. Even if we were to add all the provisions and allocations in the budget specifically targeted for women from across all ministries and departments, including the budgetary allocations for women’s hostels, day-care centres, trade-related entrepreneurial assistance programmes for women workers, the Support to Training and Employment Progamme (STEP), Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) related women workers, etc., it would be less than one per cent of total budgetary allocations.

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Answer 2

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These are tasks for which no payment is made when they are performed for the family, such as subsistence activities like kitchen gardening, post-harvest processing, feeding of farm hands or hired labour, livestock maintenance, gathering of fuel, fodder, water and forest produce, unpaid labour in family farm or family.