Report Says Number Of Women In Part-Time Jobs Are Three Times More Than Male

In both rural and urban areas, part-timers as a proportion of total employed are more in the 60+ age group among males and urban females, NSO report says

Recently a “rapid growth” in part-time work in developed economies during the last few decades has led to an increase in the rate of working women in the country.

According to the Working Paper on Compilation of Labour Indicators of Minimum Set of Gender Indicators released by the National Statistical Office on Tuesday, the percentage of part-time women workers in the working age population (15-plus years) was between 23%-24% as compared to 7%-8% for men from 2017-18 to 2019-20 while it was between 15%-16% as against 3%-4% in urban areas.

The proportion of employed persons working part-time in the 46-59 years age group at all India levels was more than 10 per cent between 2017-18 to 2019-20 while in the age group of above 60 years, the proportion of employed persons working part-time was more than 15 per cent, the NSO said 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,” the NSO said.

Hence, it is evident that In both rural and urban areas, part-timers as a proportion of total employed are more in the 60+ age group among males and urban females. Cautioned that such working arrangements (part-time work) may be “less economically secure and less stable than full-time employment”, the NSO said that policymakers had promoted part-time employment to “redistribute working time in countries of high unemployment, lowering politically sensitive unemployment rates without requiring an increase in the total number of hours worked”.

Credits: The Indian Express

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