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Working and Living Conditions Of Woman Workers in India .....

Most women workers in factories in India are in their early to mid-twenties, and many are the first generation in their families to leave home and seek employment. Most have very little schooling, usually 10 years, with older workers having as little as 5 years of schooling. They are for the most part untrained and when they begin working in factories, often begin in the ‘Helper’ category and pick up skills on the job. Very few factories offer comprehensive training programs for new workers.

Women account for a small proportion of the formal Indian labor force, even though the number of female main workers has grown faster in recent years than that of their malecounterparts.The 1991 census shows that the number of male main workers increased 23 percent since the 1981 census while the number of female main workers increased 40 percent. However, women still accounted for only 23 percent (64.3 million) of the total.

With the shocking and huge number of cases that we read in the daily newspapers, we do not see any local citizens brought to justice for committing such abusive acts".Sadly, the plight of domestic workers has been ignored not only by the State, but also by civil societies in Bahrain and the Gulf; they have become invisible to society due to the social stigma attached to their status as low-income earning migrants.