No equal payment to women than men.

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No equal payment to women than men.

   Market determined wages for similar work are significantly lower for women compared with those of men in both rural and urban India.What is worse is that the gap has widened in rural areas over the last decade through it has narrowed in the towns.These are survey finding just released by the National statistical Office in the form of a report, Women and men in India 2022.

     During April-June 2022, the time of the latest survey,the female wage rate ranged across states from just over half to 93.7% of male wages in rural India and from just under half to 100.8% for city workers.

        A comparison of these wages with NSSO's 68th round report(July 2011-June2012) shows that for most states,the gender divide in wages has increased in the rural areas.Urban areas on the other hand have witnessed a narrowing of this gap in the past decade.

      Among large states,the gap is the highest for both rural and urban regions of Kerala.The average wage rate of rural males is Rs 842 a day,also the country's highest.Female workers of the state's rural areas are paid Rs 434 a day.While this too is the highest among large states,it is only 51.5% of men's wages.

     Interestingly the three states - Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh - that have the highest daily wage rates for rural males also have the widest gender gap in wages.For all three, female wages average less than 60% of male wages.In Uttar Pradesh,Assam,West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Odisha,female rural wage rates were under 70% of the male workers.