Why 75% of Indian Women are Unemployed
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As a fully employed non-Indian non-woman, this really spoke to me
Non indian man fool. Everyone is not gender fluid who denies basic biology.
No problem. I want to marry Indian women, give them $500 a month allowance
@@dongshengdi773 have you considered just being attractive to women instead. You don't need to buy their loyalty via an "allowance" ugh.
@@hayleyxyzLet him cook
@@houseplant1016 He's not cooking
As an unemployed woman in india, this hits hard lol. I don't need to work, because my family is financially stable, and I don't really want to work for pennies for jobs I'm overqualified for. No one really questions it, I just waste my time doing nothing. But, also, feel very lost in life. :(
Fuck, talk about female privilege
You could always try to start your own business too
Use the disposable income to multiply wealth or increase rate of domestic savings. Occupational achievement is the primary motivator to be temporarily happy, peace and all comes later.
@@joeysworldsewer not in india lol
good luck with the current market, over 95% chance you'll fail hard (not even break even) in all the major cities
You are not overqualified for those jobs, lolz. What makes you think you deserve better?
The urban-rural divide in India is crazy, something you should also talk about. In Mumbai, where I live, these numbers would be almost shocking to a great chunk of people because they have no idea how bad the situation is for people in the rural sections of the country. Here, gender discrimination, at least for fresher jobs in media and tech, is unheard of. Our trains are usually filled with a healthy mix of both genders and I for one definitely see more women than men in my workplace.
Same in Delhi NCR.
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
Rural women work alongside men at least here in Telangana
It's the people in the cities who are always in the job search
Indian culture is predominantly family oriented, with mothers taking up the family responsibilities including raising the children. Studies have shown that full time motherhood increases healthy attitudes among children, for which they will be thankful. My 17yr old son thanks his mom and I for the healthy attention we gave him. My wife, despite having been highly educated, stayed home to raise him. I had to work extra hard but in the end it's worth it. My son is about to go college and he is transformed into a fine young man, thanks to his mother's undivided attention and teaching. In summary, this is also a choice of many families if their finances can afford it.
As far as I have seen, IT companies in India discriminate against men when hiring freshers. For example, women-only internships in companies like Salesforce (which are turned into jobs), women-only coding competitions, women-only jobs etc. This is mostly the case with MNCs and a few of the very high paying jobs.
My own sister was a Electrical and electronics student who finished her graduation with a good rank. The reason she was sent to study there was that she could earn stipends and the diploma was thought free of cost. She was eligible for a decent job but couldn't get one as she was the only girl in the batch moreover the company that trained her reduced its presence in india and the competition was fierce too. She finally got a job at a sales comapny where she quickly adapted to it , she was earning and got some benifits from the the company. Soon my mother started to force her to get married pushing my dad to arrange for her marriage. She got married at the age of 25 and her in laws and husband didn't allow her to work. I thought her working years were over but astonishingly she found a job at a computer hardware dealer where she has been working from an year. Now she is 33, she takes care of her 8 year old son and does all the house chores. Her husband doesn't earn much either and also doesn't help her with anything in the house. This video made me realize that this is a far greater problem that happens in every household in the country.
People are simply blindsided to all the problems here
Nobody cares about seriously important issues like these
Everyone is a pushover and seems to be okay with the utter state of this country
Largest democracy in the world my ASS
This is a culturally and economically failed state
wow, sounds like hell to be an Indian woman. So much BS "cultural" stuff
Deep cultural and social problem since ancient time.
@@jackjones4824 But India's average working hours are already 52 hours. Many people work 60+ hours a week here.
That is the same story for every middle class girl unfortunately. I hope she is able to provide a better future to her child and to herself also
This also correlates with the brain drain phenomenon India is also dealing with - if all these highly educated Indians leave for opportunities abroad because they can’t find suitable work domestically, then there’s less incentive to return and India risks losing that skilled worker for good
imagine, hordes of people from the subcontinent are working in sillicon valleys, but there are zero software companies coming from any countries in the subcontinent
@@briantarigan7685 "zero software companies coming from any countries in the subcontinent" - lmao wut?! India has plenty of software companies. Our growth model is heavily built on software companies. We don't have a shortage of those, what we need is more manufacturing i.e. factories. More software companies isn't gonna achieve anything for us.
@@briantarigan7685 Ahh, comparing immigrants to "hordes". Always a classic!
@@briantarigan7685Are you insane? India has tons of software companies.
Didn't you watch the video, India has no lack of service oriented companies. What it lacks is manufacturing.
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
The point about the labour inspector corruption is spot on. I would even add on that a lot of the small business owners are in on promulgating this toxic environment because a mentality of 'We won't move forward and therefore we won't allow anyone to move forward' is prevalent in the community.
My mom ran a B2B textile manufacturing business and the second she decided to expand from 8 to 15 employees, her competition informed the authorities who haggled her for bribes that amounted to a significant percentage of the company's liquidity, so she was forced to lay off her staff, reincorporate and pivot to a B2C model, which ran profitably until the same competition cheated her by placing orders with bouncing checks and strategically undercutting prices at the time.
When she went to the cops, they demanded a bribe that would ultimately make her company go bankrupt so she decided to liquidate everything and exit.
We really need to come to terms with our internal toxicities toward each other. We saw it with Prithviraj Chauhan 900 years ago and we're still seeing it today.
License raj and non sense labour laws allow these scumbag "inspectors" To exist.
Same thing happened with my Uncle, RIP!
That's a good point. It actually explains a lot for someone who observes from the outside like me.
Thanks for the testimony.
But now labour laws have been eased right on central level
Having your women enter the workforce is a hidden death trap. Fight it!
As a student of a tier 1 college in India, this is precisely why I would soon have to also do a master's. The job competition is too high even among men, exacerbating the problem even more for women, and basically everyone. My personal belief is that we need to build our way out, as did China, the jobs will soon follow.
Don't forget to vote the right person then.
@@PseudoProphetATMH🧡
@@PseudoProphet You mean Rahul
@@polaris1985 The economy was so good under Congress, I'm sure the dynastic moron born with a silver spoon will be even better than his dad, grandma, and great grandma. Pure delusion.
his name sugests that he is not foolish enough to do that mistake. liberandus does that mistake@@polaris1985
Something similar is happening here in Italy. Wages are stagnating since the 70s and part of the reason is the size of companies: bigger companies are more regulated and too many employers prefer having fewer workers in order to skirt regulations and avoid taxes. The net result is that many are self employed and mainly work for a company, making them a de facto employee.
I wonder why Italy never embraced libertarian economic policies, would pair well with its culture
@@christianweibrecht6555it pairs with anarchism/libertarian socialism, which was exceptionally early and strong in Italy. Spanish anarchists which were major part in Spanish civil war largery derived their politics from Italy or were Italian themselves. "working yourself to death but at least it's not government's boot" is more American than Italian
@@zuz-ve4ro socialism will never succeed in societies that lack strong civil cohesion & spirit
@zuz-v4ro You and I must have very different understandings of what “working yourself to death” means. Didn’t know 40hrs a week and triple the income constituted as such.
@@christianweibrecht6555socialism will never succeed cause state capitalism is in itself unproductive and distruction. Some socialist measures are pretty healthy overall - most just increse burocracy and block organic development of an economy.
This analysis literally X-rayed almost all aspects of Indian economy, society, culture and comparative economic history of India with Bangladesh and China, wow!
In India, 45% of STEM Education graduates are women.
37% of IT Workers in India are women.
This proportions are higher even than many western countries.
The lack of market incentives are stronger than 'culture'.
India also has the highest proportion of women pilots in the world- which shows that where quality jobs are present, women do have incentives to work.
@@Kalinga_3 He just said in the video only two types of women are working either very low income family ones which can't support their families by only men working like labourers the other ones are women who are highly educated and earn high salaries in service sector. The middle income ones are the ones not willing to work either in low quality jobs like maid, labourers or are not getting high paying jobs so they just decide to stay home and take care of the children and cooking.
This is why bangladesh has 40% women employment because the garment industry employs all the women and it is not a shamefull job women look down upon.
@@BIG_doinks not really. These kind of topics have entire books written on them
@@Kalinga_3 always take positive feedback positively. It is well known fact he is talking about.
Congratulations, you have been fooled by coloniser propaganda. Well, not a surprise given your name suggesting your mind set
I lived in India for a year. I saw that nearly all woman aged 50+ were stay-at-home Moms, but almost all of the teenager girls were hoping to enter the workforce after college. If employment opportunities can increase, the young women of India would love to have careers! 🇮🇳
Problem is those teen girls are all studying and will go to college and will expect a job in the service sector at a decent salary so they can sustain their expenses of living alone in a city and thats the problem because of limited job creations in the service sector of India and I think new jobs will come in the manufacturing sector of India which they might not want to work in, that is why you need one generation to work in the factories and the next generation goes to service sector to work in offices in the corporate world. India is doing it all wrong.
Already a workforce crunch, and you want to further stress that?
You know that is quite literally a race to the bottom, and the main reason the US is failing.
@@polaris1985they'll just move to another country. Braindrain
My mom sees. Like stay at home mother. She is 53. But she manages her own investments she earned all these years. She is enjoying her early retirement and has plans to start her own new business in next few years, the land is purchased. She is taking it slow. But nothing wrong with it. She is also healing from few health conditions and it’s better we address it now rather than later.
The fact that woman will be valued only if she is working in corporate is stupid.
Many fo my aunts SEEMs as at home mothers. But they also have investments in real estate and have their own way of living life. Earning money. One even earns by teaching yoga. Another by investing in new businesses, she knows the textile sector and she invests in new boutiques.
It’s funny that few of my aunts who worked corporate actually belittle other women, when they actually earn more, employ more ethically and treat the employees as family.
@@xerogueno, we women don’t necessarily move to another country. If one avoids mega city, rest of teh places are good enough to have a decent job and survive on that salary and save.
World forgets that Indians have tendency to save and invest and not splurge. That helps.
And most people in mega city have to get married, because it’s haughty impractical to give that much of rent for one single person.
That U curve is 100% correct. We shifted from agriculture to service sector directly but now government is trying hard to bring manufacturing jobs and developing infrastructure for that too. I hope they succeed and we see the results soon.
The intresting thing which I found is most companies prefer less than 10 works due to regulations. I think this is mostly true for manufacturing sector but some service based companies also do the same.
maybe India could create special economic zones that have minimal regulations like China did
@@christianweibrecht6555 yes the government has made some special economic zones for manufacturing and service sector as well but they need to make much more.
A stat he missed was urban population is less than 36% right now, need to expand the smaller cities now, Delhi Mumbai already too big and its not a good idea to keep expending them for the next 36%.
@@polaris1985 Sure it is, make Mumbai and Delhi larger than Shanghai and Tokyo, it would be excellent with regards to labor productivity.
Manufacturing is absolutely essential to give better jobs to the masses of less-educated people. Some states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra and even Uttar Pradesh now are trying a lot to attract manufacturing companies. But then there’s Bihar- the poorest state with the most unemployed workforce driving businesses away even though it needs these job-creating businesses the most. Other states which used to be manufacturing hubs like Punjab and West Bengal are actually going through de-industrialization as they’re wrongly prioritizing giving more freebies to farmers and others while neglecting the manufacturing industry. In Kerala, rules and regulations with the strongly anti-business atmosphere is driving businesses away- Kitex, which was the pride of Kerala’s garment manufacturing decided to relocate to Telangana.
This is extremely correct. I have 2 elder sisters, both are well educated, but just not enough to earn a salary nearly equal to my dad, so they are stuck at home (one of them is married), trying to study and get a better job that makes leaving home, away feom your family, reasonable.
Your dad has presumably been working for several decades. No matter how educated you are, you'll never earn equal to an experienced professional as a fresher. This is regardless of gender. I started working at the age of 23. My salary was 10k. At the time my father earned 1.2 lakhs. Now I'm 29 and earn around 70k per month, my dad earns 1.5 lakhs. He will retire three years later and I don't think I'll be able to match his salary before he retires. And that's perfectly natural. Your dad wouldn't be earning what he earns now if he waited around to find a job that paid him equal to his dad from day 1. That's just not realistic for most people.
No problem. I want to marry Indian women, give them $500 a month allowance
This is the same in the West. There are more women "employed" as whores and only fans models than women teachers. Let that sink in. In last two months I fucked two women for money - one was working as Project Manager in IT company and another as a Psychologist, how many men would be able to sell their body for money? The fact is women do not want to work like men, feminism was only about slavery of men to fulfill material needs of women.
Does your family worry about the "honour" implications of the daughters working away from home, or do the women simply not want to work for a lower salary? Not trying to invalidate you or to be antagonistic, I'm just wondering how widespread is the belief that it is improper for women to work. I'd think that if they're allowed to study, they should also be allowed to work. Much more promiscuity happening on campus than on the shop floor.
@@someguycalledcerberus9805It's not specifically about Honour culture (Eventhough it's prevalent in India but in a very different way). Women don't work because the kind of job available to them. For Highly educated women, it's easy to find a job in an IT company, teaching etc and parents would even allow her for lower pay. Reason work environment is extremely suitable, you work in an Air conditioned room, fellow female colleagues etc etc.
The problem comes for not so highly educated women. They only passed High school or pursued a useless degree like Political science,History etc. Now I would separately explain the scenario for the two categories
1) Useless degree- They are graduates but Don't Market related skills to get a White collar job. They can't go into a construction site,Farm or Manual labour because they are over qualified for that. It would be extremely embarrassing for the person too, when he would realize her fellow workers are not even half as qualified as her. So either they prepare for government job but the vacancies are less and the competition is intense. Only job left is teaching which couldn't engulf the whole women work force. Plus the work conditions are hazardous for life and if she has a baby, it naturally becomes a smarter choice to invest your energy on household work.
2) Till High school education:
They are not eligible for Teaching or government but they do have basic Mathematic and language skill to work in a factory but the labour laws are so strict that there are no big manufacturing factors (as mentioned in the video). Now they can't go to such hazardous jobs too and her spouse does a decent enough job to sustain the family. So naturally they end up being house wife.
One Cultural factor too : It's perceived as dent on a man's competence to provide for his wife and Family. People would taunt the guy by saying "Is your salary so low that your wife has to work to sustain the family?? Such a shame".
Even in our Hindu wedding, the husband takes a vow that he is going to take responsibility of her wife's well being (Btw I am curious on what kind of vow you guys in Christian wedding)
Being an Indian interested in the topic, no one else and I mean not one person has explained the issues like you have.
Indian society needs to keep the women unemployed and stay home so they can make babies and serve Indian men.
You still believe "unsafe for women" and "purity of women" are legitimate? They are outdated and unproven rhetorics, and Polymatter did no research. No neutrality
You dont search more i guess. There are many indian think tank youtube.
@@joshuatheunkownuniverse.2475 none of them have this presentation
*which is a typical neo liberal colonizer point of analysing, not from point of family or broader perspective of prosperity and happiness.
I worked several weeks in India helping to train mostly recent women college graduates. I was told that only a couple years before I was there, 90+% would be married within a year of graduation and the personal section of the local papers weren't people looking to date but rather looking to get married and college degrees were often stated requirements. The manager I worked mostly closely with, a 30-something year old man was actively being married off by his mom, looking for a Bengali-speaking (the family's primary language) college graduate that had no work ambition, so he could pick and move if necessary for better work. That came into play when he later moved to Finland for work and new wife went with him. Within the work groups women could move up and be promoted, there were some good female managers, but many women in my group were too shy and not forward enough to become those managers. We weren't paying these young women much money by western standards but that money was starting to cause a revolution, increasing possibilities for young women, first purchase usually a moped, and it turned out that most of these women employed a (usually illiterate) woman to take care of household chores like cleaning and meal prep. whereas back in the US I made a lot more money but still washed my own clothes, cleaned toilets etc.
I didn't realise how pathetic men's involvement in household chores was till I moved out of my home and started living with a roommate
My father is impatient and can't stand my ADHD mother's(and mine) pace of house work, so he basically does everything - but apparently I am excellent at house hold chores when compared to my roommate lol who has a stay at home mother doing everything for him
Those "illiterate" women are on the extreme left of the U graph. Their participation in the workforce is immense, especially in cities. They never sit at home as they can't afford to and the labor market being cheap makes their services affordable which is not the case in developed nations. These women are employed, the high paid women are employed, the issue is with those who are in between. Their lives aren't bad enough to push them into the low paying jobs but also not good enough to compete for the high paying ones and if they can marry a man who can keep them there then staying in that limbo is socially acceptable.
India faces a significant challenge in the coming years as advancements in AI technology will render many services currently offered by its workforce to Western countries obsolete. AI's ability to understand and communicate effectively will lead to the replacement of roles in tech support and customer service industry. This shift will have a profound impact on the Indian labor market, especially for those serving the US market. The transition period has already started and you cannot imagine how bad this will hit India.
After you factor in the damage this could potentially (and most likely, will) cause to the Indian economy, and the country as a whole, I think it would be an understatement to say that we're headed towards absolute disaster.
well india is transitioning to manufacturing and building infrastructure at faster rate than ever before , so i dont think we will hit a wall .
AI Companies now owned by Indians.
spot on. unless we can harness that “window of opportunity” as mentioned in the video before ai is powerful enough to replace service-related jobs, we’re headed for a nasty economic shock
😂😂 Indians will make ai useless keep watching
As an Indian, I really liked your analysis. In fact, I like almost all of your videos and would like you to make more videos on India like this, just like you do with China's. Thank you.
Our UA-camr is just so smart
This isn't him doing the research. He found a pre existing academic paper which talks about this issue. UA-camrs don't create things from scratch 😂
hopefully there is a possible feed back loop where increased information helps India improve itself which makes it more relevant thus increasing interest
@@rutvikrs Would you rather the video NOT based on peer-reviewed research?
This explains why China is cracking down on typical western neo liberal companies that do such kind of shoddy research job and not allowed UA-cam on its soil. India needs to at least create competition to UA-cam which boosts neo liberals lik this who prommote fraud think tanks and suppress other point of view.
Spot on, would like to add that a lot of urban families who send their daughters to college to learn DO want their daughters to work, from what I've seen. What I've seen at least in my social circles is that the women may even end up getting a job, but then they get married and the default expectation is that she won't work anymore due to having to do all the household chores and such.
This problem is exacerbated with kids. Having kids is also a default expectation, and women who hold on to their jobs even after marriage by balancing both household chores and their jobs often have to let go when the kid comes into the equation because looking after the child is also in their hands now.
Very, very few are able to hold on after this point. And for those who do, it is a living hell-- balancing their jobs, household chores and kids means waking up earlier than everyone else and sleeping after everyone else, all in all no rest whatsoever. Even on holidays, the women have to work the house.
Another point worth adding is that since there is a cultural expectation for men to be the breadwinner and support their family as well, even if the family is barely scraping by on the income earned having a conversation with your wife where you both might consider going to work is just not a thing that you do.
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
Why do so many Indian women get married instead of setting up their respective careers?
Indian women need to stop marrying and start focusing on financial stability.
@@debodatta7398You're going around to every comment to say this, and it's added little to nothing to the conversation.
As a man who has lived in India for his entire life. This perspective of why there is low labor among women was very interesting
It sounds like they don’t want to work
@@nobodythenobody9779 Yeah they don't.
@@harisadu8998 reading the comments from Indian women here, most say it’s not worth their time
@@nobodythenobody9779No, they do, they just don't want to be slaves. Getting paid nothing isn't working, that's slavery.
@@nobodythenobody9779 1. who does?😸 2. and who does for free?🤷
As an Indian women The main factor for women doing less job especially in states like UP, Bihar(highest populated states) is obsession of parents with Gov Job as they are considered as safe and respectful rather than demeaning. So in general women are preferred in the filled of Teaching, Doctor, Engineering ,IAS,IPS, Banking, or any other high profile Government jobs, apart from that any other job is seen as not honorable and safe. So there are very few gov job available cuz of high competition and reservation So in general after marriage they stop working,as they consider private sector as unsafe for women So if parents obsession with Gov jobs not end nothing can be done about that . Now people mentality is changing so i hope there will be some
And 50% of UP start ups are female owned or a female co founder higher than any western country.
Tell the slave they have a home life?
@@bunk95 what are u trying to imply?
@@bunk95 what's 'bout western girls who sell their bodies on onlyfans websites 😂
Thank you for bringing to light what most people fail to see in India itself ❤
Waiting for the “you’ve summoned 1 billion people 🤓🤓” comments
'I haven't ridden 0 million animals 😃😃'
you've summoned 1 billion people 😂
Waiting for the "can we just take a moment to appreciate" comments
Only 700 million Indians have internet and only 400 million use UA-cam
@@Dr.Kay_R☝️🤓
Entry level jobs pay pennies for full time work in india, people who are career focused are forced to go through that initial hell.
Hence many young women whose parents are financially stable simply prefer to remain unemployed, get married and become a housewife rather than to suffer in this hell of an job market.
Only misandrists think that housewife is degrading work when it is actually the most fulfilling
Bro. You're talking about upper middle class women. Almost of India's population is still rural.
@@ahmednadim5859true. Majority of india is still rural which op doesn't know about or care enough to understand it
India's urban population is at 35% with villages being more urbanised than ever. There are employment opportunities everywhere. It's just that for some women it's just not worth it.
That issue is not exclusive to India, it's everywhere and pay depends on the cost of living (usually just enough to cover basic necessities and a bit more). My parents went through the same thing but eventually it worked in favour of them and for quite a long time, my mum earned more than my dad even though they both had similar educational backgrounds.
Wages are not high enough in India. I know a woman who earns the same amount as she pays a nanny/babysitter to look after her kids. Why not look after baby yourselves?
Sounds like the Uk to me , 3/4 of the wages go to the childminder . we are essentially collecting years of employment just to secure er.. retirement. But you guys have all these Aunties and Grannies.
You have hit the mark. Now that I think about it, I've seen too many cases where an educated women don't pursue jobs or resign their jobs after marrying someone with decent salary. Based on personal experience, I think as a society we have moved away from the 'honour' thing. Even in conservative villages, women are being expected to provide/add to the household. The economy however still seems to be a bit of a problem.
I just feel that we have failed to bank on the manufacturing sector despite having a large workforce as a result of late liberalization of economy.
Great explanation of a nuanced, tricky issue. Well done
Not really that tricky at all. Women stay home when they can. Because the whole mother thing yanno?
@@josephmelton4721Grandparents can take care of child issue yanno
@@josephmelton4721Bangladesh has the same cultural bias. Clearly that’s not the only reason
You really work hard to maintain such thorough and interesting research into little known topics. Huge props to your channel.
This is so sad and depressing. In America almost every single privately owned gas station/convenient store is run by an Indian family. Such nice people. I go out of my way to do business with these people because I know I'm contributing to a family and not some thankless heartless corporation.
Cause their they get safe from Indian mentality
I would rather go to walmart/other chain stores because then my money will be helping my own countrymen who are employed there to get better wages
@@sleepyfella
Wow!!! That's so bizarre that anyone would think that going to Walmart is a good thing.
They're all the same. Small convenience stores bevome big corporate stores too. Samsung started that way and a few Indian owned group companies in my country started that way too. Save your money for yourself. No-one deserves your money more than the person that worked for it. Pay yourself by aiming for financial freedom and early retirement.
@@sleepyfella who's your countrymen white people
Really good vid. Thank you for the research❤. Learnt a lot about my own country and feel privileged and grateful.
A really well researched and well documented video.
Well done man!
This segment is really about how college educated young people can’t find jobs despite strong GDP growth. I had no idea it was so bad.
@@amandacollyer645 gdp growth is mainly due to the upskillment of it professionals, people around me have been getting 20% increment each year for 3-4 years
Even in india ,men are not able to sustain family because of growing housing and livelihood expense , there is intense competition for jobs even for low paid jobs
Well u nicely explained about reason rather than creating controversy
Which will put rising pressure against the patriarchy trap, and hopefully by the time those household incomes rise, there will be more acceptable and pay for women to stay employed.
Indians are always so worried about controversy, yet y'all do things like annex Kashmir or assassinate people in other countries.
No, all women entering workforce will go is even further devalue labor and cause further inflation for basic necessities. It will also make it difficult to have a family. What needs to happen is society needs to understand that being a family caregiver is far more important than being some high-powered corpo.
@@hellgoramathan make it law with payment being wife, as a profession with rights and obligations, with a salary and insurance etc.
If u can't than don't block someone just cause that person so happens to have a uterus.
@@hellgorama You could also improve the economy and productivity by enslaving a bunch of people. Women are humans too and deserve to live free of discrimination. If your economy and culture requires that women be treated like second class citizens to stay afloat, it has failed already.
To give a sense, there were 44 Central labour laws until 2020 and still are 100's of laws & regulations at State levels, each differ where you are. This makes reforms very difficult as labour inspectors operate in State & District jurisdiction level.
Unfortunately those labour codes you talking about are still not implemented!
This was well researched and put together
Amazing video ❤❤
As an Indian man. Indian men around me won't even recognise this as an issue
As a proud Indian citizen it was difficult for me to watch the first half of this video. But your analysis seems to have some valid points. India needs a major reform to its old laws derived from distorted communist mindset during the "license raj". Our MSMEs need to become bigger with 1000+ employees without government interference.
whats the point in being proud when you cant take valid critisizm
Proud Lodu… guu ke keede
@@kingskod I wouldn't be proud myself but to be fair, he took the criticism pretty constructively
I am surprised that a non Indian UA-camr has found the actual reason to this problem..
Jaspaal, he is half Gori.
this was a really good video. I would like to add some points :
1. since the marriages are arranged, the women have to migrate to a different place 99% of the times which makes them quit their existing job, if they were allowed to have any in the first place.
2. most college goers are married off as soon as they graduate as graduation is only a thing to put in your matrimonial resume
3. most men and their families prevent women from working saying that he earns enough for both of them, while constantly nagging about the meagre income. happens in most households. There is complete control over finances. Women live off of meagre pocket money given by their husbands which might range from as little as 500-5000 rupees per month. Most women don't have a bank account either.
4. most in laws live with the couple and make it a very toxic environment and pressue the couple to produce children, preferably male (because women are burden), this is to be done within a year or it would be a dishonour. and as soon as the kid is born the woman is made to sit at home and do everything from a-z as the husband commands her to do every tiny job of his.
4. Most parents mildly enforce STEM or management courses on their children irrespective of gender which obviously trains them for the service sector. The children would feel that they don't deserve to work in a manufacturing sector as it doesn't match what they studied for and it doesn't pay as much as a service job does. it's also about honour and reputation which comes with being an engineer or a doctor or lawyer.
I recommend watching Soch by mohak mangal's video on the same.
3:18, the moment that makes all Polymatter videos special - that taking of conventional expectations, as he calls it, "Case: Closed" and digging much deeper. You do an incredible service for any topic you cover.
as a indian in early 20s , i found this really accurate and eye opening
Great video. Very insightful and informative. This reinforces my opinion of India.
A meticulously research work done with spot on facts and rationale behind them. All points mentioned are valid and genuine.
I never thought of the consequences of skipping manufacturing and going straight to services. It’s an intricate ecosystem.
I am surprised by the depth of research & analysis this video has on indian job market its really impressive ❤
So fascinating.
Many thanks!
Fascinating video, you really have a talent for this kind of presentation. Very well researched.
As a working professional in India, I occasionally find myself inspired by those who truly live their lives to the fullest despite not being part of the workforce.
I think anyone would be inspired by this. You work to live, not live to work. If you can live your life to the fullest without working, you should be doing that. The problem is if unemployment is preventing you from living your life to the fullest.
"those who truly live their lives to the fullest despite not being part of the workforce." definition of rich
Incredibly insightful. It's really sad that India has stunted it's own development by so much years by preventing manufacturing from taking off. India should've done the same as Bangladesh, the entire world would benefit from it.
India is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical manufacturers on the planet.
@@Praisethesunson India is also the most populated country on the planet.
India is working to try and fix that error, which is why attracting Foxconn is such a big deal for example
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
@debodatta7398 key is India needs to increase its manufacturing and make streets safer for women
Just discovered this channel. Well, the algorithm did. Good work, added sub.
Another great video and thanks sir!!!
Thank You for covering this topic PolyMatter, I hope government sees this and works on this crucial issue that is presenting as a roadblock to India’s growth. Focusing on Women Safety should be paramount.
As an Indian I'm kind of CEO myself
No problem. I want to marry Indian women, give them $500 a month allowance
:) lol. Nice one.
@@dongshengdi773if you lived in india you won't be earning 500 dollars a month. If you live in a rich one then you gotta provide 2500 min.
This video doesn't account the fact that cost of living is very low in India. That's why it doesn't required much to sustain a family of 4.
An income of 800 dollars is enough to have middle class living in India.
You can't be globally competitive with that salary though
That's almost 7.5 lpa. It's upper middle class in most cities barring some super expensive ones.
@@CommandantNOVA you are quite Mistaken.
🤔 Maybe I should move to India then....
Really great video. Thanks!
Great explanation. Manufacturing is picking up so fingers crossed. Services are good for uplifting the middle class but the number of jobs is not going to increase in services because there is literally no need of extra work force in services sector. Manufacturing sector is the only sector which can employ in mass.
True. But manufacturing is only increasing in specific states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. States which used to be manufacturing hubs like Punjab and West Bengal are seeing their manufacturing decreasing as they prioritize giving freebies to farmers and others over creating and nurturing businesses. Then there’s Bihar.
@@artman12manufacturing is only half the equation. Logistics is the other half. India will need an efficient transportation system to move vast quantities of material and goods from the ports to the factories and from the factories back to the ports. China had 40 years to perfect this and they're staying on top of it, which is why they're still highly competitive in mid-level manufacturing and they've broken into high level manufacturing, producing electric cars and now microchips.
@@eugeneng7064 The Indian government is now investing considerably to developing dedicated railway freight corridors and expressways to transport goods from the interior to the ports efficiently. But it’s less than China because India started developing these infrastructure projects only recently.
@@artman12 how are her ports doing? And the bureaucracy? İf India cannot build/develop good deep water ports and cut all the red tape/corruption all that effort is for naught
@@eugeneng7064our bureaucrats , mostly lower level ones are massively corrupt
This is amazingly well done. The ground reality hits hard and you have given proper explanation. It kind of motivated me to grind a bit more so that I can help my fellow Indians.
Unionize and organize. That's the only way to actually help your fellow Indians.
Unless you mean you want to help the Ambani family buy more stuff. In which case yeah, grind harder.
@@Praisethesunson I will take the positives from this comment
@@Praisethesunson Apparently you didn't watch the video. Most Indians are employed in very small companies, where there isn't much scope to unionize. India's problem is NOT Ambanis (or other big companies), who in spite of their big organizations have a tiny sliver of the overall pie.
@@jarjarbinks3193 Reliance industries owns 7% of India's entire GDP. You are a poor so of course you wouldn't know that.
The informal sector isn't a bunch of small businesses.
The manual scavengers could unionize. But they would be murdered if they tried.
This video is garbage and paints a ridiculous view of India's problems over economic output.
Watching this video one would think child labor doesn't exist in India. Or the caste system.
@@Praisethesunsonunionizing works against business's interest of low wages , exploitative work. It's the very reason why developed countries outsource whenever possible , to lower the cost and deal with as less humans as possible. Sucks to be average joe.
Think of productivity difference between gov and private employees. They get paid 1/3 of secured jobs , provide more to businesses and economy.
Fantastic video thank you
never knew I was an Indian women
😂😂
Lmfao, you win
Now go look pretty in a saree.
Show bobs and vegana
Damn it
This is one reason why India won't experience China's growth. India will also never receive the amount of foreign investment that China did. ASEAN will collectively have more employed workers and a higher GDP than India for the rest of the century.
But by 2050 ASEAN and India will have more employed workers than China. China's workforce started declining in 2012 and has already fallen by 50 million and is losing 10 million or more workers each year as their 1960s post famine baby boomers retire.
I'm in awe of the accuracy and depth of this video.
Most of the points that you talked about, be it women being held back from working due to social pressure and unsafe work environments, or the fact that most uneducated people that were displaced out of the agriculture sector have resorted to working in harsh and low-paying construction jobs, or the fact that because India skipped the manufacturing phase, there is a massive influx of job-seekers in a limited number of decent-paying employment opportunities, and several other points that you make in this video, is something I see every day with my own eyes, just not in the context and perspective that you presented them in.
Wow! Thank you for making this video.
Abhishek power, great analysis there Sir . The manufacturing technology is the the only thing that made China filthy rich and that India and most of the african continent needs . its a shame that local complexities are so toxic that it'd be hard to progressively implement it.
The fact about Manufacturing is very important. Service sector jobs are less in no. And require specialized skills and background that a company can give training for but you need to have some technical background. The thing is majority of people cannot afford such means to learn technical skills which they could've done if the government focused on Manufacturing.
As a properly employed and working Indian woman, didn’t know how rare I was🤣😂 Didn’t watch the full vid, but from personal experience, it’s straight up discrimination and exploitation from all sides and lack of any real protection, legal or otherwise.
What a great and informative video . No beating around the bush no ugly racism just straight up facts .
Thankyou ❤
Just a typical neo liberal, western supramist point of view of analysing.
Much like India, the philippines is a service oriented economy too with a median age roughly the same too at 27-28 afaicr. The only difference being is that in the philippines there is no stigma against women working. I do hope our country could also be strong in the manufacturing side though since at best, vietnam has already surpassed us on that side maybe at least a decade ago or more due to the prohibitive government policies detering foreign investments here
Your Best Video yet. It encapsultated a small brief of almost every issue facing India. If it could be modulated to reach the Indian people at scale that would be phenomenal.
This video has somewhat lit a spark in me. Next year i am starting my college. I want to work on the solution which already exists and find new ways also on this situation
Good luck mate
have a talk with a policaman or a mla, all your dreams will shatter
You should make india actually on nebula
But much Indians can't afford nebula subscription
fr India's so massive its like its own world
no one from india would watch it + audiences around the world have very less interest in india than china. and unlike china where every problem might have different answers, in india it is usually societal norms.
@@akashdevani1960 That's not true social norms are the root but that doesn't mean they cause all the problems.Another major one is what I call the ""meh who cares approach to the problem"" .I can literally do a speeding and find corruption happening somewhere in less than a minute
What india expected to have: youth = time = money
What india actually doing: time pass = money wasted
Really insightful video
I ve been following this channel for 5 years. I was surprised to see video about India.
Sagar, makes you happy doesn't it.
The biggest reason for this in my opinion is that men in India don't cook at all and if your salary is low which majority of Indians have you can't order food daily from the restaurants because its too expensive and not healthy, you cant also hire a cook because it is too expensive for middle income family. Men don't wash cloths, iron them, dont clean the house etc. If thier wife if also working a 9 to 5 job then its too much load on her and then on top of that preganancy and child care problems for them. Its basically impossible for the women of the middle income family to work a low paying job do all that so they just stay at home and does the house work.
It takes Rs 6000 for a cook 5k for a maid for cleaning and washing cloths/dishes and atleast 10k for childcare(probably more per month), in Delhi average expense for a family of 3 is almost Rs 40,000 to live a decent life with no saving so adding cook and childcare would make it Rs60,000 plus you need to save for healthcare and future education marriages of child and your old age retirement so you need atleast Rs100,000 to sustain this type of lifestyle where women can work, divide it by 2 and you get Rs50,000(6,00,00 per annum) for husband and wife to earn. Just by the income tax data just 2.24 crore people paid income tax in 2022-23, which works out to just about 1.6 per cent of the total population in India. so basically 90% of the population can't afford this type of lifestyle and so WOMEN DONT WORK AND TAKE CARE OF THE HOME.
@@ibisarenotbinchickens9846 that does not contribute to econony
@@ibisarenotbinchickens9846Just because a woman earn less doesn’t mean the women have less. If you can’t fit that into your skull, you really need to educate yourself on basic logic.
That Simpsons episode in India was accurate then about those laws on big companies with over ten employees! No wonder Mr Burns moved the nuclear power plant back to Springfield.
this was really insightful and spot on about the culture, corruption and finance
As an indian i can say it's almost true, but its changing, new generation women's are working and productive, while the 19's womens are still just a house wife..
Mostly they choose to became house wife for take care of family and children...
Now things are changed a lot...
One more thing to add
These labour laws were reformed in 2020 by Central Govt, but most state Govt have not followed suit. These labour inspectors operate under State level jurisdiction.
Thus pushing reforms in India's labour sector is very difficult.
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
@@debodatta7398 you are BOT
This is a well made video. You touched almost all aspects of the employment issue. Sadly India at the current rate looks like will miss the demographic dividend.
If any video talks about demographics dividend and GDP per capita or permanent and/or high salarised job in non contradictory way you should run away from that video as fast as possible
@@saurabhade1079wtf?
A big reason in rural areas is probably that there's few opportunity other than hard labour which even the rural families want to stop their women from doing and they actually stop them from working if a man gets a job in the city. As those labour jobs are low pay and very arduous. It's a sign of wealth for poor family of you women are no longer forced to work anymore to earn for food
Yep and when women get married, it's also a cultural expectation in India for women to stay home and be housewives
Excellent report
Giving it Cultural reasons is really weak point.. It's like saying in a village children are not going to school because parents don't want them to be educated but main problem is there is no school in village in first place.
But cultural reasons are the most important
Not all societies need to have "employed" women
@@goyonman9655 but all society needs to and should make as much money as possible.
@@ddeviddyoung
I do not believe this at all
But you do
So that's where we disagree
Indians are always are telling me that India is Number One.
But the more I find out about India and the more contact Ihave with indians the lower my opinion has become.
Well thats because of hyper nationalism.History has proven time and time again whenever a leader can't do their job they just rely on nationalism
Very good analysis.. Thanks
Hey Poly, excellent video!
I would add a 2c advising you to ajust your sound equalizer, it seems it have a huge gain on high frequencies, it is a bit annoying
This is such a great analysis!
No it isn't.
Its not unemployment but not working and looking for rich guy to embezzle money. I see most not keen on working and if in company not coming to work by giving excuses leading to work targets delays. Imagine for HR role, there are 5 females and none able to do one work properly and what company top management has to shell out to keep feminism active. But only one man does all work and at even less pay.
Thank you for your service.
11:20 It would've been nice if you briefly explained the context of the graph, ie the relation of the "world bank" to the subject matter at the time and what the world bank is and does.
Just some input, love your content.
As an Indian I want to share some of my observation:
Many woman who were in poor/ middle class families do work. Woman in rich families rarely work. Highly educated woman do work irrespective of family background. But in some families some string attached to women where their in laws dont allow them to work which is really outrageous and stupid. But that's what india is... In some backward villages mostly in northern part of india don't even allow women to go out ....
that 'in laws denying the woman to work' thing happens a lot more than we think. It's disgusting honestly, in laws think that they own their daughter in law now
@@meghanarora4136 Why do so many Indian women get married instead of setting up their respective careers?
Indian women need to stop marrying and start focusing on financial stability.
Nowadays majority upper class women do work as per my surroundings.
This is really Sad😔. I still remember when my mother wanted to do a job but my grandfather objected to it and my father had to move to a different city.
Good for your grandfather.
Nice video as usual..👍👍
Great video ❤
I'm an Indian woman who was raised there for the first 27 years of my life. Moved abroad after being mistreated in the workforce over and over. In my five years of working in India I have faced everything from sexual harassment (which was not looked into despite raising multiple complaints), being paid less than my male friends (one of whom was a college dropout while I had a bachelor's degree), not being taken seriously when asked for leave, being told that I will "get married and quit anyway", not being given the same respect and basic privileges that my male colleagues recieved. Most of the women I know who work are working towards the goal of leaving the country for better and more gainful employment opportunities. After moving abroad, I am finally being paid according to my talent and merit rather than my gender or marital status.
And this is the perspective of someone who only worked white collar jobs in India. I cannot even fathom the plight of women in blue collar industries.
You are talking about westernized women.
@@somakchatterjee6429 I am talking from the perspective of a white collar worker, not a "Westernized woman".
@@Nix_101stop talking bulls&&t
You've made it , more power to you 🎉.
this isn't even an Indian problem , neighboring countries like Pakistan also have this problem but it has steadily decreased with more women getting educated . Even still in more conservative areas this isn't necessarily the case ,though the cities ''seem'' to have a steady decrease in this issue.
Good job polymatter
Very interesting!
The title is clickbaity. 75% of Indian women ARE NOT unemployed. They are however not participating in the labor force. To be considered unemployed, you have to be eligible for work (aka adult), not working and actively looking for work.
The facts in the video are important and the gov should aim to improve the situation, but unemployment is a specific term in economics and not just a catch all term for people not working.
Love the analysis, and the surprising lack of trolling in the comments section.
Sounds like India is stuck in a negative feedback loop.
Sometimes i worry who gave governments so much power and yet they care about only thing that is staying in power
Those videos always make me think "oh what a great place for a company to move to" and then a few minutes later "I really wouldn't want to deal with xy if I had a company there"
After 2 year. finally a video related to India. Their is lot to explore in India in terms of challenges as well as opportunity
Can you share your sources and research?? this is some good work.
as an Indian studying in a western country, I'm scared to return home after graduating :(
Why
You should return , you have comparative advantage
Don't. You've escaped the Matrix
lol@@piyushpati7319
Imo one of the biggest issues is a lack of willingness by many Indians to even acknowledge the cultural, structural and societal issues in their country. Talk to the average Indian and they'll tell you that the country is amazing, the best in every way, the sexism and sectarian problems don't exist, the weirdly small manufacturing base can be ignored and corruption in government is okay. The average Indian tells you that it's okay that so many of the country are still in poverty since a select few have become billionaires and the government spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a statue.
Sab changa si !
It's Dunning Kruger syndrome.
Average IQ in India is 76. lower than even Papua New Guinea
Damn you analysed it way too correctly,we have this mentality here " kaam chalau " ,it's basically as long it's working it's fine ,doesn't matter the efficiency,and trust me it's not good
It is all based on a thing called "statistics". Just "headlines" don't define things like "sexism" and "sectarian" problems in a country. In spite of its massive population, crushing population density, poverty, and diversity (from religious to linguistic to ethnic), there is simply no other country with the relativity stability of India! Yes, this includes even crimes. All the while being open and democratic. In comparison, even countries with a lot less population and a lot more homogenous have far more acrimonious sectarian divides. Not to mention being far less open and a lot more authoritarian. Most of the Middle Eastern countries fall in this category.
Dude you were totally sounding like a foreigner, until i read the 'statue' line.