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Services of Homemaker

The document discusses including the services of homemakers in calculating GDP. It notes that traditionally in Indian society, the contributions of homemakers have been undervalued and unrecognized. While laws have promoted gender equality, the economic contributions of different groups are still overlooked. The document argues that a typical homemaker works far more than a CEO, taking care of children, the household, cooking, cleaning, and finances with no pay. It estimates that India's homemakers, if paid modestly per hour for their work, would contribute over 8 trillion rupees annually to the economy. The document concludes homemakers are the backbone of households and their work enables other productivity but they deserve more respect.

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Services of Homemaker

The document discusses including the services of homemakers in calculating GDP. It notes that traditionally in Indian society, the contributions of homemakers have been undervalued and unrecognized. While laws have promoted gender equality, the economic contributions of different groups are still overlooked. The document argues that a typical homemaker works far more than a CEO, taking care of children, the household, cooking, cleaning, and finances with no pay. It estimates that India's homemakers, if paid modestly per hour for their work, would contribute over 8 trillion rupees annually to the economy. The document concludes homemakers are the backbone of households and their work enables other productivity but they deserve more respect.

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Services of Homemaker’s to be included in calculating GDP

Mohammad Alhan Khan


University of Stirling, RAKEZ Academic Zone - Al Dhait South - Ras al Khaimah
Email – alhanbpl9@gmail.com, Mobile - +971505504843

Abstract - Traditionally in Indian society, the contributions of homemakers towards the


development of their houses and the economy have been undermined and often not
recognized at all. Many in this patriarchal setup claim that women' fit' the role of a
homemaker, and hence it is not essential to recognize their contributions. However, times
have changed, and different legislations and judgments have been passed in favor of
recognizing people of different sexes as equals. Nevertheless, what was not recognized was
the contribution made by different people in different ways on both the micro-and macro-
economic scale.
Performing household work has often been considered a menial and certifiably simple job.
Arguments in favor of this point of view center around facts like it requires no degree and
receives no monetary remuneration. So, the respect associated with being a 'homemaker' is
almost close to nothing. Some would say that that is a reasonably logical argument
considering that we live in a capitalist society, where your pay values your worth; no pay
automatically implies no worth. Women, being the main doers of this job, are then at the
short end of the stick, especially in India, where many women are housewives.
However, let us take a moment and think about the life of a typical Indian housewife-you
will find that it is more hectic than even that of a company CEO. Consider the different roles
she plays – the caregiver to her children and her in-laws, the dutiful wife to her husband,
the cook, the cleaner, and the primary manager of the logistics and daily finance of the
household – all with no pay and 24-hour work duty. Even with domestic help, managing a
household is a full-time job. A day sans the homemaker's services disrupts the functioning
of the household altogether; a man can be a breadwinner because he knows he has a tidy
home to come to at the end of the day, his family is taken care of, and his food awaits him.
In essence, one can say that a housewife is the backbone of the household-her work is the
most important for any productivity to take place.
On average, a homemaker works 16 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year.
Assuming a modest 100 INR per hour's work, she would earn INR 584000 a year. There are
a total of 123346333 married women and men in India. Assuming 60% of them are
homemakers, it reduces to 148015600.28. At the same INR 100 per hour rate, they all will
earn INR 86441110516800. Nevertheless, they are not respected as much as they deserve.
Keywords – Homemaker, Society, Payment, GDP, Economics

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