Falling Between the Cracks: Women’s Work and the Periodic Labour Force Survey

IF 0.5 4区社会学 Q3 WOMENS STUDIES

Indian Journal of Gender Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-23 DOI:10.1177/09715215231158132

Jyoti Thakur

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Abstract

This article reflects upon the changes introduced in the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) and their impact on the visibility of women’s work in India. In 2017–2018, the National Sample Survey Organisation’s five-yearly employment–unemployment surveys (EUS) were replaced by the annual PLFS, and in the transition, the section that comprised probing questions was dropped. These questions had been introduced in 1972–1973 to highlight women’s productive activities, which otherwise remain invisible. The section was key to collecting information on not only women’s reproductive work but also the unrecognised productive work women undertake within the walls of their homes. It provided a window in a society where women’s work is underestimated as well as unappreciated.

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夹缝之中：妇女工作与定期劳动力调查

本文回顾了定期劳动力调查中引入的变化及其对印度妇女工作知名度的影响。2017年至2018年，国家抽样调查组织的五年一次的就业-失业调查（EUS）被年度PLFS取代，在过渡期间，包括调查问题的部分被删除。这些问题是在1972年至1973年提出的，目的是突出妇女的生产活动，否则这些活动就看不见了。这一部分不仅是收集妇女生殖工作信息的关键，也是收集妇女在家中从事的未被认可的生产性工作的关键。它为一个妇女的工作被低估和不被重视的社会提供了一个窗口。

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Indian Journal of Gender Studies WOMENS STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The Indian Journal of Gender Studies is geared towards providing a more holistic understanding of society. Women and men are not compared mechanically. Rather, gender categories are analysed with a view to changing social attitudes and academic biases which obstruct a holistic understanding of contributions to the family, community and a wider polity. The journal focuses, among other issues, on violence as a phenomenon, the social organisation of the family, the invisibility of women"s work, institutional and policy analyses, women and politics, and motherhood and child care.