K N Chandana JahnaviAIR 50 · CSE 2023 · 198 wordsTheir whole copy
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"Feminization of work" ensures that women enter into productive and remunerative spheres.
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This has been an impact of multiple factors of industrialization, rising capitalist society, feminist movements, urbanization and nuclear family structure along with universal proclamation of gender equality as a "SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL" (SDG-5).
Despite its aspiration, trend of Feminization of work has not yielded its results in entirety- this is because:
There is creation of PINK COLLAR JOBS at lower rung of organizational hierarchy which are underpaid and lower productivity.
For example, feminization of occupations such as teacher, secretaries, nurses while high paying jobs are still male oriented.
Despite lower rung spurt, there is very limited upward mobility which Feminists term "GLASS CEILING". For substantiating it, Forbes 500 companies have mere 28 women CEOs in 2018.
Apart from lower representation, Female counterparts on whole suffer from sexual misbehavior at work place resulting in limited aspiration for working among women.
Also, developing countries are seeing trends of feminization in primary sectors - Example being India's feminization of Agriculture where we see very little economic empowerment.
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Thus, as Global Gender Gap Report envisions, there is need for multi-sectoral role to enhance Gender Equality at work & other spheres.