Women are overrepresented in informal employment in the Indian labour market. They also devote more time to unpaid care work than men do. The poor working conditions of women are attributable to this double burden of work. Due to the lack of regulatory measures to protect the interest of informal women workers along with rigid gender norms, women’s participation in paid work is drastically reduced. As far as unpaid care work is concerned, feminist economists have been striving to make such work visible for a long time now. There have been some developments in labour statistics, with time use surveys quantifying women’s paid and unpaid contributions to the economy. This article delves into the examination of unpaid care work in India with the help of the Indian government’s recent Time Use Survey. It attempts to study the connection between paid work and unpaid care work and its implications for the working conditions of women in India. Finally, it evaluates the ‘right to work’ as a possible solution by using the example of employment guarantee schemes in India.

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削弱女性在经济中的作用：印度有偿工作和无偿护理工作之间的相互作用

在印度劳动力市场，女性在非正规就业中的比例过高。与男性相比，她们还花更多时间从事无偿护理工作。妇女恶劣的工作条件归因于这种双重工作负担。由于缺乏保护非正规女工利益的监管措施以及僵化的性别规范，女性参与有偿工作的人数急剧减少。就无偿照护工作而言，女权主义经济学家长期以来一直在努力使此类工作可见。劳工统计方面取得了一些进展，时间使用调查量化了女性对经济的有偿和无偿贡献。本文在印度政府最近的时间使用调查的帮助下深入研究了印度的无偿护理工作。它试图研究有偿工作和无偿护理工作之间的联系及其对印度妇女工作条件的影响。最后，它以印度的就业保障计划为例，评估了“工作权”作为一种可能的解决方案。