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| Only 12.7 pc females have cash incomes in India: Survey | | | New Delhi | Oct 7
Even as more number of Indian women are going up the corporate ladder with heavy pay packets, only 12.7 per cent of females of the country's active workforce are having cash incomes, a latest study says.
Further, nearly 68 per cent of women graduates in India are not having any form of income against their name, reveals a recent study on the income and savings pattern of Indians.
"Of the active workforce with cash incomes, only 12.7 per cent are females," notes the report titled 'Invest India Incomes and Savings Survey 2007' by IIMS Dataworks.
It collected data from nearly one million households on occupation, income sources, income and asset ownership and household composition, among others.
"We have taken cash income into account for making the calculations. For instance, there are many people whose net worth is very high considering their assets and number of shares owned, among others. But here we have only considered income earned in cash," Executive Director of IIMS Dataworks Sandeep Ghosh said
According to the survey, most of the women are waged labourers. While 35.4 per cent of them are into agricultural wage labour, the highest for any sector, about 17 per cent are into waged labour. Only about 5.2 per cent are private salaried workers, the study reported. |
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