Munich Personal RePEc ArchiveValuation of unpaid household work ofrural women: A case study of Ghazipurdistrict of Uttar PradeshYadav, Sheela and Sharma, NidhiAssistant Professor, Department of Economics, M.R.M. College,(L.N.M.U) Darbhanga, Bihar, Professor, Department of Economics,Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi19 July 2021Online atMPRA Paper No. 108827, posted 23 Jul 2021 04:57 UTC
Page | 1Valuation of unpaid household work of rural women: A case study of Ghazipur districtof Uttar PradeshDr Sheela Yadav1Dr Nidhi Sharma2Abstract:Women considerably contribute to a large part of an economy through theirproductive work but their works are not recognized due to the inadequate definition of‘economic activity, used in the national income accounting. A major section of the invisiblework performed by rural women remains unidentified, undefined, and unpaid. Since thedefinition of economics is bounded by the market framework, much of the non-market workperformed by women remain invisible and has consequently caused the market devaluation ofwomen’s work. Present primary data-based study on Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh studiesthe valuation of paid and unpaid household activities of rural women by Market replacementcost method. The study finds that the total average time spent on unpaid SNA and ExtendedSNA activities by non-working women is almost double the time spent by working women.The daily and monthly wages for unpaid household activities work for the non-working womanis about 28.34 per cent higher than a working woman under the market replacement generalistapproach.In the study specialist approach is found to be better and more realistic than thegeneral approach.Keywords:Valuation, Unpaid household work, Rural women, Time use survey, WorkloadAssistant Professor1Department of Economics, M.R.M. College, (L.N.M.U) Darbhanga,Bihar Email Id-[email protected]Professor2Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Science, Banaras Hindu University,Varanasi,Email id-[email protected]
Page | 21IntroductionWomen though significant and dynamic agents in the Indian financial system but theirinvolvement in different economic activities is very low as compared to men. Most of thewomen are primarily engaged in non-economic activities (these activities are productive butnot included in national GDP).Women’s contributions to economic activities are neitherproperly recorded nor recognized and they remain invisible (missing women) in the nationalrecords. Due to various definitional, conceptual and methodological problems, the restricteddefinition of economic activities and gender blindness of development policy, womencontribution to economic and non-economic activities has not been quantified much and alsonot captured by statistical methods (Mayanglambam 2012).
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