Daunting adversities vs modern working women

BYR.VAISHNAVI. 3 rd yr,EEE DEPT,KLNCE

Women have come a long way and today are no less than a “super women” juggling well their familyand professional lives

Ongoing economic global downturn of 2007 sent nearly 1 million moms out of work

While women lost jobs ,some men also did in male dominated industries,Thus resulted in role swaps leading to unexpected family clashes.

Also, a two earner couple family or a single mother family relying on women’s income bagged financially back

WOMEN SUFFER HIGH

RATES OFUNEMPLOYMEN

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Research at Cornell university took place ,creating hypothetical job seekers with stronger resumes

The result was U.S Companies opted for 84% of women without children than 47% of working mothers

Salary dropped by 37%

. “The end result is that neither situation is healthy or productive”

MATERNITY LEAVE:

ILO created standard(revised in 1952) to offer 12-14 weeks of this Leave

Most developed countries offer 2-6 months of this leave with 80-100% of her earnings In February, 2009, a massive extension of maternity leave across Europe was voted for by the Women’s Rights Committee of the European Parliament to make it compulsory for employers to pay mothers for a minimum of 20 weeks on full pay.

PARENTAL LEAVE:

These are gender-neutral leaves following the maternity leave

Are also provided to men, they are either use or lose leave and are paid leaves

Either the mom or dad can use the leave or could share them

This helps creating an incentive to fathers to play active parenting role

Even as women enter workforce in large numbers, they still undertake majority of unpaid household work and childcare.

The skills of women are increasingly needed for national economy to grow and this behooves government to increase employment rates of mothers.

But without cultural attitude change working mothers will continue to struggle to balance work and family responsibilities.