DOMESTIC LABOR AND FINANCIAL INCLUSION: A STUDY OF FEMALE WORKERS IN THE NILGIRIS REGION

Abstract

A grouping of push and pull factors contribute to women toward the inside domestic work. Rural poverty has increased in many countries occasioned by structural adjustment programmes, destruction of the agricultural sector and economic crises. This has pushed many women and girls into the domestic labour market. Domestic work is one of a small number of employment opportunities open to poor women. Cleaning and cooking, looking after children and the elderly is almost universally regarded as women’s work, so men rarely compete with women in this job market. In the Indian background, domestic work is generally defined in terms of nature of work performed and the time spent at work, i.e., in the employer’s home. Live-out and live-in are two different categories of domestic work. Hence this study focused to analyse the occupational structure and saving pattern of Female Domestic workers.