As an unemployed woman in india, this hits hard lol. I don't need to work, because my family is financially stable, and I don't really want to work for pennies for jobs I'm overqualified for. No one really questions it, I just waste my time doing nothing. But, also, feel very lost in life. :(
Use the disposable income to multiply wealth or increase rate of domestic savings. Occupational achievement is the primary motivator to be temporarily happy, peace and all comes later.
While no one talks about Child Abuse, let me get on with it. Many daughters in India are trapped by toxic families on purpose, to keep the from getting jobs & becoming independent. Yes, that includes adult-daughters. My own parents deliberately ruined my career 4 times, and stole money from my account to keep me from moving out. My mother is horribly overbearing, and insisted on coming to interviews with me (despite me having previous work experience). She refused to let me step out of the house. Currently, I'am homeless after they stole my money. I'am still trying to get back on my feet. It's incredibly hard, despite being overqualified when you have zero resources to work with.
@Damnme719 They don't do anything. Because they still carry this backwards mentality that the daughters are properties of their father. Also, do not assume I haven't taken any action. I did what I could. There's not much you can do with zero help and support.
@@Damnme719 Why did you assumed I haven't taken any action? I did do all the necessary steps. Alas, the police in our country still thinks the parents owns their kids. Hence, my situation.
This also correlates with the brain drain phenomenon India is also dealing with - if all these highly educated Indians leave for opportunities abroad because they can’t find suitable work domestically, then there’s less incentive to return and India risks losing that skilled worker for good
imagine, hordes of people from the subcontinent are working in sillicon valleys, but there are zero software companies coming from any countries in the subcontinent
@@briantarigan7685 "zero software companies coming from any countries in the subcontinent" - lmao wut?! India has plenty of software companies. Our growth model is heavily built on software companies. We don't have a shortage of those, what we need is more manufacturing i.e. factories. More software companies isn't gonna achieve anything for us.
@@briantarigan7685Are you insane? India has tons of software companies. Didn't you watch the video, India has no lack of service oriented companies. What it lacks is manufacturing.
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
My own sister was a Electrical and electronics student who finished her graduation with a good rank. The reason she was sent to study there was that she could earn stipends and the diploma was thought free of cost. She was eligible for a decent job but couldn't get one as she was the only girl in the batch moreover the company that trained her reduced its presence in india and the competition was fierce too. She finally got a job at a sales comapny where she quickly adapted to it , she was earning and got some benifits from the the company. Soon my mother started to force her to get married pushing my dad to arrange for her marriage. She got married at the age of 25 and her in laws and husband didn't allow her to work. I thought her working years were over but astonishingly she found a job at a computer hardware dealer where she has been working from an year. Now she is 33, she takes care of her 8 year old son and does all the house chores. Her husband doesn't earn much either and also doesn't help her with anything in the house. This video made me realize that this is a far greater problem that happens in every household in the country.
@@SuyashSharma8and middle class married men are having parties alone enjoying himself? Men are expected to be the breadwinner and pay most of the bills in most cases forcing him to work until he dies, but God forbid women do chores that too with the help of maids. All traditional benefits for women are okay but any traditional woman responsibilities are oppressive
The point about the labour inspector corruption is spot on. I would even add on that a lot of the small business owners are in on promulgating this toxic environment because a mentality of 'We won't move forward and therefore we won't allow anyone to move forward' is prevalent in the community. My mom ran a B2B textile manufacturing business and the second she decided to expand from 8 to 15 employees, her competition informed the authorities who haggled her for bribes that amounted to a significant percentage of the company's liquidity, so she was forced to lay off her staff, reincorporate and pivot to a B2C model, which ran profitably until the same competition cheated her by placing orders with bouncing checks and strategically undercutting prices at the time. When she went to the cops, they demanded a bribe that would ultimately make her company go bankrupt so she decided to liquidate everything and exit. We really need to come to terms with our internal toxicities toward each other. We saw it with Prithviraj Chauhan 900 years ago and we're still seeing it today.
The urban-rural divide in India is crazy, something you should also talk about. In Mumbai, where I live, these numbers would be almost shocking to a great chunk of people because they have no idea how bad the situation is for people in the rural sections of the country. Here, gender discrimination, at least for fresher jobs in media and tech, is unheard of. Our trains are usually filled with a healthy mix of both genders and I for one definitely see more women than men in my workplace.
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
Indian culture is predominantly family oriented, with mothers taking up the family responsibilities including raising the children. Studies have shown that full time motherhood increases healthy attitudes among children, for which they will be thankful. My 17yr old son thanks his mom and I for the healthy attention we gave him. My wife, despite having been highly educated, stayed home to raise him. I had to work extra hard but in the end it's worth it. My son is about to go college and he is transformed into a fine young man, thanks to his mother's undivided attention and teaching. In summary, this is also a choice of many families if their finances can afford it.
As far as I have seen, IT companies in India discriminate against men when hiring freshers. For example, women-only internships in companies like Salesforce (which are turned into jobs), women-only coding competitions, women-only jobs etc. This is mostly the case with MNCs and a few of the very high paying jobs.
As a student of a tier 1 college in India, this is precisely why I would soon have to also do a master's. The job competition is too high even among men, exacerbating the problem even more for women, and basically everyone. My personal belief is that we need to build our way out, as did China, the jobs will soon follow.
@@polaris1985 The economy was so good under Congress, I'm sure the dynastic moron born with a silver spoon will be even better than his dad, grandma, and great grandma. Pure delusion.
This analysis literally X-rayed almost all aspects of Indian economy, society, culture and comparative economic history of India with Bangladesh and China, wow!
In India, 45% of STEM Education graduates are women. 37% of IT Workers in India are women. This proportions are higher even than many western countries. The lack of market incentives are stronger than 'culture'. India also has the highest proportion of women pilots in the world- which shows that where quality jobs are present, women do have incentives to work.
@@Kalinga_3 He just said in the video only two types of women are working either very low income family ones which can't support their families by only men working like labourers the other ones are women who are highly educated and earn high salaries in service sector. The middle income ones are the ones not willing to work either in low quality jobs like maid, labourers or are not getting high paying jobs so they just decide to stay home and take care of the children and cooking. This is why bangladesh has 40% women employment because the garment industry employs all the women and it is not a shamefull job women look down upon.
Something similar is happening here in Italy. Wages are stagnating since the 70s and part of the reason is the size of companies: bigger companies are more regulated and too many employers prefer having fewer workers in order to skirt regulations and avoid taxes. The net result is that many are self employed and mainly work for a company, making them a de facto employee.
@@christianweibrecht6555it pairs with anarchism/libertarian socialism, which was exceptionally early and strong in Italy. Spanish anarchists which were major part in Spanish civil war largery derived their politics from Italy or were Italian themselves. "working yourself to death but at least it's not government's boot" is more American than Italian
@zuz-v4ro You and I must have very different understandings of what “working yourself to death” means. Didn’t know 40hrs a week and triple the income constituted as such.
@@christianweibrecht6555socialism will never succeed cause state capitalism is in itself unproductive and distruction. Some socialist measures are pretty healthy overall - most just increse burocracy and block organic development of an economy.
That U curve is 100% correct. We shifted from agriculture to service sector directly but now government is trying hard to bring manufacturing jobs and developing infrastructure for that too. I hope they succeed and we see the results soon. The intresting thing which I found is most companies prefer less than 10 works due to regulations. I think this is mostly true for manufacturing sector but some service based companies also do the same.
@@christianweibrecht6555 yes the government has made some special economic zones for manufacturing and service sector as well but they need to make much more.
A stat he missed was urban population is less than 36% right now, need to expand the smaller cities now, Delhi Mumbai already too big and its not a good idea to keep expending them for the next 36%.
Manufacturing is absolutely essential to give better jobs to the masses of less-educated people. Some states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra and even Uttar Pradesh now are trying a lot to attract manufacturing companies. But then there’s Bihar- the poorest state with the most unemployed workforce driving businesses away even though it needs these job-creating businesses the most. Other states which used to be manufacturing hubs like Punjab and West Bengal are actually going through de-industrialization as they’re wrongly prioritizing giving more freebies to farmers and others while neglecting the manufacturing industry. In Kerala, rules and regulations with the strongly anti-business atmosphere is driving businesses away- Kitex, which was the pride of Kerala’s garment manufacturing decided to relocate to Telangana.
I mean, if construction can be done effectively on manufacturing infrastructure, we still have a good chance. Service jobs can bring in capital. But we need another Make In India/Make For India push. I wonder why all that stopped 4-5 years ago.
I lived in India for a year. I saw that nearly all woman aged 50+ were stay-at-home Moms, but almost all of the teenager girls were hoping to enter the workforce after college. If employment opportunities can increase, the young women of India would love to have careers! 🇮🇳
Problem is those teen girls are all studying and will go to college and will expect a job in the service sector at a decent salary so they can sustain their expenses of living alone in a city and thats the problem because of limited job creations in the service sector of India and I think new jobs will come in the manufacturing sector of India which they might not want to work in, that is why you need one generation to work in the factories and the next generation goes to service sector to work in offices in the corporate world. India is doing it all wrong.
Already a workforce crunch, and you want to further stress that? You know that is quite literally a race to the bottom, and the main reason the US is failing.
My mom sees. Like stay at home mother. She is 53. But she manages her own investments she earned all these years. She is enjoying her early retirement and has plans to start her own new business in next few years, the land is purchased. She is taking it slow. But nothing wrong with it. She is also healing from few health conditions and it’s better we address it now rather than later. The fact that woman will be valued only if she is working in corporate is stupid. Many fo my aunts SEEMs as at home mothers. But they also have investments in real estate and have their own way of living life. Earning money. One even earns by teaching yoga. Another by investing in new businesses, she knows the textile sector and she invests in new boutiques. It’s funny that few of my aunts who worked corporate actually belittle other women, when they actually earn more, employ more ethically and treat the employees as family.
@@xerogueno, we women don’t necessarily move to another country. If one avoids mega city, rest of teh places are good enough to have a decent job and survive on that salary and save. World forgets that Indians have tendency to save and invest and not splurge. That helps. And most people in mega city have to get married, because it’s haughty impractical to give that much of rent for one single person.
You still believe "unsafe for women" and "purity of women" are legitimate? They are outdated and unproven rhetorics, and Polymatter did no research. No neutrality
I worked several weeks in India helping to train mostly recent women college graduates. I was told that only a couple years before I was there, 90+% would be married within a year of graduation and the personal section of the local papers weren't people looking to date but rather looking to get married and college degrees were often stated requirements. The manager I worked mostly closely with, a 30-something year old man was actively being married off by his mom, looking for a Bengali-speaking (the family's primary language) college graduate that had no work ambition, so he could pick and move if necessary for better work. That came into play when he later moved to Finland for work and new wife went with him. Within the work groups women could move up and be promoted, there were some good female managers, but many women in my group were too shy and not forward enough to become those managers. We weren't paying these young women much money by western standards but that money was starting to cause a revolution, increasing possibilities for young women, first purchase usually a moped, and it turned out that most of these women employed a (usually illiterate) woman to take care of household chores like cleaning and meal prep. whereas back in the US I made a lot more money but still washed my own clothes, cleaned toilets etc.
I didn't realise how pathetic men's involvement in household chores was till I moved out of my home and started living with a roommate My father is impatient and can't stand my ADHD mother's(and mine) pace of house work, so he basically does everything - but apparently I am excellent at house hold chores when compared to my roommate lol who has a stay at home mother doing everything for him
Those "illiterate" women are on the extreme left of the U graph. Their participation in the workforce is immense, especially in cities. They never sit at home as they can't afford to and the labor market being cheap makes their services affordable which is not the case in developed nations. These women are employed, the high paid women are employed, the issue is with those who are in between. Their lives aren't bad enough to push them into the low paying jobs but also not good enough to compete for the high paying ones and if they can marry a man who can keep them there then staying in that limbo is socially acceptable.
As an Indian, I really liked your analysis. In fact, I like almost all of your videos and would like you to make more videos on India like this, just like you do with China's. Thank you.
hopefully there is a possible feed back loop where increased information helps India improve itself which makes it more relevant thus increasing interest
This explains why China is cracking down on typical western neo liberal companies that do such kind of shoddy research job and not allowed RUclips on its soil. India needs to at least create competition to RUclips which boosts neo liberals lik this who prommote fraud think tanks and suppress other point of view.
Spot on, would like to add that a lot of urban families who send their daughters to college to learn DO want their daughters to work, from what I've seen. What I've seen at least in my social circles is that the women may even end up getting a job, but then they get married and the default expectation is that she won't work anymore due to having to do all the household chores and such. This problem is exacerbated with kids. Having kids is also a default expectation, and women who hold on to their jobs even after marriage by balancing both household chores and their jobs often have to let go when the kid comes into the equation because looking after the child is also in their hands now. Very, very few are able to hold on after this point. And for those who do, it is a living hell-- balancing their jobs, household chores and kids means waking up earlier than everyone else and sleeping after everyone else, all in all no rest whatsoever. Even on holidays, the women have to work the house. Another point worth adding is that since there is a cultural expectation for men to be the breadwinner and support their family as well, even if the family is barely scraping by on the income earned having a conversation with your wife where you both might consider going to work is just not a thing that you do.
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
Why do so many Indian women get married instead of setting up their respective careers? Indian women need to stop marrying and start focusing on financial stability.
Women graduates are married off mostly arranged marriage and most families don't want a working woman because of honour issues, ego issues as conservative Indian society think a husband who allows her wife to work is weak and can't earn enough for the family, and working woman won't do house chores as they would be working atleast for 9 to 5 a day. Women mostly don't have a choice. And lack of jobs, unemployment, geographical reasons etc also fuels this problem
Entry level jobs pay pennies for full time work in india, people who are career focused are forced to go through that initial hell. Hence many young women whose parents are financially stable simply prefer to remain unemployed, get married and become a housewife rather than to suffer in this hell of an job market.
India's urban population is at 35% with villages being more urbanised than ever. There are employment opportunities everywhere. It's just that for some women it's just not worth it.
That issue is not exclusive to India, it's everywhere and pay depends on the cost of living (usually just enough to cover basic necessities and a bit more). My parents went through the same thing but eventually it worked in favour of them and for quite a long time, my mum earned more than my dad even though they both had similar educational backgrounds.
3:18, the moment that makes all Polymatter videos special - that taking of conventional expectations, as he calls it, "Case: Closed" and digging much deeper. You do an incredible service for any topic you cover.
You can also see that in many rural areas which became tourist hotspots. Service sector work in hotels and restaurants are plentiful in the high season, yet unemployment is rampant in the low season since most rural areas lack manufacturing jobs, and agriculture jobs can´t keep up with such a huge wave of unemployed service workers...
This is so sad and depressing. In America almost every single privately owned gas station/convenient store is run by an Indian family. Such nice people. I go out of my way to do business with these people because I know I'm contributing to a family and not some thankless heartless corporation.
They're all the same. Small convenience stores bevome big corporate stores too. Samsung started that way and a few Indian owned group companies in my country started that way too. Save your money for yourself. No-one deserves your money more than the person that worked for it. Pay yourself by aiming for financial freedom and early retirement.
As an Indian women The main factor for women doing less job especially in states like UP, Bihar(highest populated states) is obsession of parents with Gov Job as they are considered as safe and respectful rather than demeaning. So in general women are preferred in the filled of Teaching, Doctor, Engineering ,IAS,IPS, Banking, or any other high profile Government jobs, apart from that any other job is seen as not honorable and safe. So there are very few gov job available cuz of high competition and reservation So in general after marriage they stop working,as they consider private sector as unsafe for women So if parents obsession with Gov jobs not end nothing can be done about that . Now people mentality is changing so i hope there will be some
Even in india ,men are not able to sustain family because of growing housing and livelihood expense , there is intense competition for jobs even for low paid jobs Well u nicely explained about reason rather than creating controversy
Which will put rising pressure against the patriarchy trap, and hopefully by the time those household incomes rise, there will be more acceptable and pay for women to stay employed.
No, all women entering workforce will go is even further devalue labor and cause further inflation for basic necessities. It will also make it difficult to have a family. What needs to happen is society needs to understand that being a family caregiver is far more important than being some high-powered corpo.
@@hellgoramathan make it law with payment being wife, as a profession with rights and obligations, with a salary and insurance etc. If u can't than don't block someone just cause that person so happens to have a uterus.
@@hellgorama You could also improve the economy and productivity by enslaving a bunch of people. Women are humans too and deserve to live free of discrimination. If your economy and culture requires that women be treated like second class citizens to stay afloat, it has failed already.
India faces a significant challenge in the coming years as advancements in AI technology will render many services currently offered by its workforce to Western countries obsolete. AI's ability to understand and communicate effectively will lead to the replacement of roles in tech support and customer service industry. This shift will have a profound impact on the Indian labor market, especially for those serving the US market. The transition period has already started and you cannot imagine how bad this will hit India.
After you factor in the damage this could potentially (and most likely, will) cause to the Indian economy, and the country as a whole, I think it would be an understatement to say that we're headed towards absolute disaster.
spot on. unless we can harness that “window of opportunity” as mentioned in the video before ai is powerful enough to replace service-related jobs, we’re headed for a nasty economic shock
My mom has a degree in commerce and computers and she is unemployed .....she was expected to look after me and the household work.....now she has lost all confidence and can't work......also my dad is pathetic with money and earning enough......if my mom had worked maybe my family didn't have financial problems....she just wasted her life for nothing....it saddens me.
Maybe ask her if she thinks she wasted her life? I would recommend you to watch some documentary on dharavi, the biggest slum of Asia or the biggest dumping ground of india in delhi
Thank You for covering this topic PolyMatter, I hope government sees this and works on this crucial issue that is presenting as a roadblock to India’s growth. Focusing on Women Safety should be paramount.
This is really Sad😔. I still remember when my mother wanted to do a job but my grandfather objected to it and my father had to move to a different city.
As an indian i can say it's almost true, but its changing, new generation women's are working and productive, while the 19's womens are still just a house wife.. Mostly they choose to became house wife for take care of family and children... Now things are changed a lot...
To give a sense, there were 44 Central labour laws until 2020 and still are 100's of laws & regulations at State levels, each differ where you are. This makes reforms very difficult as labour inspectors operate in State & District jurisdiction level.
This video has somewhat lit a spark in me. Next year i am starting my college. I want to work on the solution which already exists and find new ways also on this situation
this was a really good video. I would like to add some points : 1. since the marriages are arranged, the women have to migrate to a different place 99% of the times which makes them quit their existing job, if they were allowed to have any in the first place. 2. most college goers are married off as soon as they graduate as graduation is only a thing to put in your matrimonial resume 3. most men and their families prevent women from working saying that he earns enough for both of them, while constantly nagging about the meagre income. happens in most households. There is complete control over finances. Women live off of meagre pocket money given by their husbands which might range from as little as 500-5000 rupees per month. Most women don't have a bank account either. 4. most in laws live with the couple and make it a very toxic environment and pressue the couple to produce children, preferably male (because women are burden), this is to be done within a year or it would be a dishonour. and as soon as the kid is born the woman is made to sit at home and do everything from a-z as the husband commands her to do every tiny job of his. 4. Most parents mildly enforce STEM or management courses on their children irrespective of gender which obviously trains them for the service sector. The children would feel that they don't deserve to work in a manufacturing sector as it doesn't match what they studied for and it doesn't pay as much as a service job does. it's also about honour and reputation which comes with being an engineer or a doctor or lawyer. I recommend watching Soch by mohak mangal's video on the same.
I'm in awe of the accuracy and depth of this video. Most of the points that you talked about, be it women being held back from working due to social pressure and unsafe work environments, or the fact that most uneducated people that were displaced out of the agriculture sector have resorted to working in harsh and low-paying construction jobs, or the fact that because India skipped the manufacturing phase, there is a massive influx of job-seekers in a limited number of decent-paying employment opportunities, and several other points that you make in this video, is something I see every day with my own eyes, just not in the context and perspective that you presented them in. Wow! Thank you for making this video.
Abhishek power, great analysis there Sir . The manufacturing technology is the the only thing that made China filthy rich and that India and most of the african continent needs . its a shame that local complexities are so toxic that it'd be hard to progressively implement it.
As an Indian I want to share some of my observation: Many woman who were in poor/ middle class families do work. Woman in rich families rarely work. Highly educated woman do work irrespective of family background. But in some families some string attached to women where their in laws dont allow them to work which is really outrageous and stupid. But that's what india is... In some backward villages mostly in northern part of india don't even allow women to go out ....
that 'in laws denying the woman to work' thing happens a lot more than we think. It's disgusting honestly, in laws think that they own their daughter in law now
@@meghanarora4136 Why do so many Indian women get married instead of setting up their respective careers? Indian women need to stop marrying and start focusing on financial stability.
The fact about Manufacturing is very important. Service sector jobs are less in no. And require specialized skills and background that a company can give training for but you need to have some technical background. The thing is majority of people cannot afford such means to learn technical skills which they could've done if the government focused on Manufacturing.
You have hit the mark. Now that I think about it, I've seen too many cases where an educated women don't pursue jobs or resign their jobs after marrying someone with decent salary. Based on personal experience, I think as a society we have moved away from the 'honour' thing. Even in conservative villages, women are being expected to provide/add to the household. The economy however still seems to be a bit of a problem. I just feel that we have failed to bank on the manufacturing sector despite having a large workforce as a result of late liberalization of economy.
As a working professional in India, I occasionally find myself inspired by those who truly live their lives to the fullest despite not being part of the workforce.
I think anyone would be inspired by this. You work to live, not live to work. If you can live your life to the fullest without working, you should be doing that. The problem is if unemployment is preventing you from living your life to the fullest.
This is amazingly well done. The ground reality hits hard and you have given proper explanation. It kind of motivated me to grind a bit more so that I can help my fellow Indians.
Unionize and organize. That's the only way to actually help your fellow Indians. Unless you mean you want to help the Ambani family buy more stuff. In which case yeah, grind harder.
@@Praisethesunson Apparently you didn't watch the video. Most Indians are employed in very small companies, where there isn't much scope to unionize. India's problem is NOT Ambanis (or other big companies), who in spite of their big organizations have a tiny sliver of the overall pie.
@@jarjarbinks3193 Reliance industries owns 7% of India's entire GDP. You are a poor so of course you wouldn't know that. The informal sector isn't a bunch of small businesses. The manual scavengers could unionize. But they would be murdered if they tried. This video is garbage and paints a ridiculous view of India's problems over economic output. Watching this video one would think child labor doesn't exist in India. Or the caste system.
@@Praisethesunsonunionizing works against business's interest of low wages , exploitative work. It's the very reason why developed countries outsource whenever possible , to lower the cost and deal with as less humans as possible. Sucks to be average joe. Think of productivity difference between gov and private employees. They get paid 1/3 of secured jobs , provide more to businesses and economy.
I'm an Indian woman who was raised there for the first 27 years of my life. Moved abroad after being mistreated in the workforce over and over. In my five years of working in India I have faced everything from sexual harassment (which was not looked into despite raising multiple complaints), being paid less than my male friends (one of whom was a college dropout while I had a bachelor's degree), not being taken seriously when asked for leave, being told that I will "get married and quit anyway", not being given the same respect and basic privileges that my male colleagues recieved. Most of the women I know who work are working towards the goal of leaving the country for better and more gainful employment opportunities. After moving abroad, I am finally being paid according to my talent and merit rather than my gender or marital status. And this is the perspective of someone who only worked white collar jobs in India. I cannot even fathom the plight of women in blue collar industries.
@@Nix_101 I'm quite amazed how they have agreed to hike the wages if I be there I would have either ducted your wage or had you on the notice period work less ,talk much
@@amandacollyer645 gdp growth is mainly due to the upskillment of it professionals, people around me have been getting 20% increment each year for 3-4 years
Incredibly insightful. It's really sad that India has stunted it's own development by so much years by preventing manufacturing from taking off. India should've done the same as Bangladesh, the entire world would benefit from it.
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
@@saurabhade1079just because we are part of the western world don't make us liberals. I'm a American yet I dislike our liberal policies like LGBTQ. I am more conservative. Wishing for us to be strong in manufacturing and services. They both have huge advantages.
A big reason in rural areas is probably that there's few opportunity other than hard labour which even the rural families want to stop their women from doing and they actually stop them from working if a man gets a job in the city. As those labour jobs are low pay and very arduous. It's a sign of wealth for poor family of you women are no longer forced to work anymore to earn for food
The biggest reason for this in my opinion is that men in India don't cook at all and if your salary is low which majority of Indians have you can't order food daily from the restaurants because its too expensive and not healthy, you cant also hire a cook because it is too expensive for middle income family. Men don't wash cloths, iron them, dont clean the house etc. If thier wife if also working a 9 to 5 job then its too much load on her and then on top of that preganancy and child care problems for them. Its basically impossible for the women of the middle income family to work a low paying job do all that so they just stay at home and does the house work. It takes Rs 6000 for a cook 5k for a maid for cleaning and washing cloths/dishes and atleast 10k for childcare(probably more per month), in Delhi average expense for a family of 3 is almost Rs 40,000 to live a decent life with no saving so adding cook and childcare would make it Rs60,000 plus you need to save for healthcare and future education marriages of child and your old age retirement so you need atleast Rs100,000 to sustain this type of lifestyle where women can work, divide it by 2 and you get Rs50,000(6,00,00 per annum) for husband and wife to earn. Just by the income tax data just 2.24 crore people paid income tax in 2022-23, which works out to just about 1.6 per cent of the total population in India. so basically 90% of the population can't afford this type of lifestyle and so WOMEN DONT WORK AND TAKE CARE OF THE HOME.
When Men gets a job he is ready to marry an unemployed girl but when a woman gets a job she doesn't marry an unemployed boy.. The main reason is women's mentality is very backwards in India.. selfish and greedy nature of women needs to change
One more thing to add These labour laws were reformed in 2020 by Central Govt, but most state Govt have not followed suit. These labour inspectors operate under State level jurisdiction. Thus pushing reforms in India's labour sector is very difficult.
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
Imo one of the biggest issues is a lack of willingness by many Indians to even acknowledge the cultural, structural and societal issues in their country. Talk to the average Indian and they'll tell you that the country is amazing, the best in every way, the sexism and sectarian problems don't exist, the weirdly small manufacturing base can be ignored and corruption in government is okay. The average Indian tells you that it's okay that so many of the country are still in poverty since a select few have become billionaires and the government spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a statue.
Damn you analysed it way too correctly,we have this mentality here " kaam chalau " ,it's basically as long it's working it's fine ,doesn't matter the efficiency,and trust me it's not good
It is all based on a thing called "statistics". Just "headlines" don't define things like "sexism" and "sectarian" problems in a country. In spite of its massive population, crushing population density, poverty, and diversity (from religious to linguistic to ethnic), there is simply no other country with the relativity stability of India! Yes, this includes even crimes. All the while being open and democratic. In comparison, even countries with a lot less population and a lot more homogenous have far more acrimonious sectarian divides. Not to mention being far less open and a lot more authoritarian. Most of the Middle Eastern countries fall in this category.
Go to America. On the Internet people say it's bad but that's because people don't like the USA and blows the problems out of proportion without looking deep. Like our supposed gun problem which is ironic when you consider the states that have more gun laws have higher amounts of crime than in states with less gun restrictions. Or that we are all fat which is a flat out lie. Sure we have a higher obesity rate but it's not nearly as high as most believe it is.
no one from india would watch it + audiences around the world have very less interest in india than china. and unlike china where every problem might have different answers, in india it is usually societal norms.
@@abitofascientist That's not true social norms are the root but that doesn't mean they cause all the problems.Another major one is what I call the ""meh who cares approach to the problem"" .I can literally do a speeding and find corruption happening somewhere in less than a minute
To all the Indians in the comments section, who think they're limited in India, Come to Africa. I live in Kenya. I've been living here my whole life. You'll really be valued here.
Tq bro,but the thing is most indian parents don't want their daughter to go out at all,they want them to be married,live medicore life with useless hubby
The title is clickbaity. 75% of Indian women ARE NOT unemployed. They are however not participating in the labor force. To be considered unemployed, you have to be eligible for work (aka adult), not working and actively looking for work. The facts in the video are important and the gov should aim to improve the situation, but unemployment is a specific term in economics and not just a catch all term for people not working.
This is a well made video. You touched almost all aspects of the employment issue. Sadly India at the current rate looks like will miss the demographic dividend.
If any video talks about demographics dividend and GDP per capita or permanent and/or high salarised job in non contradictory way you should run away from that video as fast as possible
That Simpsons episode in India was accurate then about those laws on big companies with over ten employees! No wonder Mr Burns moved the nuclear power plant back to Springfield.
A lot of economic growth comes from transitioning small businesses to medium sized business. If hiring a tenth employee is that punishing, then they really need a more gradual transition of regulations to encourage and not discourage growth.
As a proud Indian citizen it was difficult for me to watch the first half of this video. But your analysis seems to have some valid points. India needs a major reform to its old laws derived from distorted communist mindset during the "license raj". Our MSMEs need to become bigger with 1000+ employees without government interference.
Much like India, the philippines is a service oriented economy too with a median age roughly the same too at 27-28 afaicr. The only difference being is that in the philippines there is no stigma against women working. I do hope our country could also be strong in the manufacturing side though since at best, vietnam has already surpassed us on that side maybe at least a decade ago or more due to the prohibitive government policies detering foreign investments here
this isn't even an Indian problem , neighboring countries like Pakistan also have this problem but it has steadily decreased with more women getting educated . Even still in more conservative areas this isn't necessarily the case ,though the cities ''seem'' to have a steady decrease in this issue.
Your Best Video yet. It encapsultated a small brief of almost every issue facing India. If it could be modulated to reach the Indian people at scale that would be phenomenal.
As a properly employed and working Indian woman, didn’t know how rare I was🤣😂 Didn’t watch the full vid, but from personal experience, it’s straight up discrimination and exploitation from all sides and lack of any real protection, legal or otherwise.
Those videos always make me think "oh what a great place for a company to move to" and then a few minutes later "I really wouldn't want to deal with xy if I had a company there"
Also, on a cultural level, India has not bought into the need for a two-income household. The man is still seen as the primary income source - evident from the way alimony laws are setup, and the woman as a primary care-giver for the children, evident in the way the custody laws are setup. The idea of requiring both the individuals in a marriage to work to support a family is the result of companies massively undercutting worker wages and salaries due to the large population of available labour. This in turn forced women to enter the job markets to increase the chances of earning a better income for the family, but caused a cycle of even more available labour in the market which companies can exploit by paying less on average as now the supply of labour is much higher than the available job opportunities. The problem is not why 75% of women are unemployed, but rather why we as a society, both in the west and in countries like India - have moved from being able to have families flourish with 1 employed individual to requiring 2 or even more. In the name of efficiency in production, economic growth and free markets, the quality of human life suffers.
Jason, your well-informed response is a breath of fresh air when compared to this dog doodoo of a video. If only every Westerner was willing to take the time and effort required to research the reality of India instead of blindly trusting whatever propaganda nonsense is shoved down their ignorant throats by an equally ignorant mainstream media.
I was thinking the same thing, if a household is able to get by on 1 income - surely that’s not the worst thing considering many people in western countries long for the days when that was possible. In terms of society and family life, having someone at home to raise kids is hugely beneficial for the kids and has been the standard for most of human history, the main ones to benefit from the 2 income household are are huge corporations that are able to massively increase supply of labour while essentially getting away with paying them less forcing couples to both work in order to survive
@@ABBZ120the problem is that most households struggle to get by on one income. The reason why they do is because there aren't enough jobs for women. That's the whole point of the video
It's worth noting that if you go back a few hundred years to a predominantly rural setting then both parents working would be normal. Certain tasks might be gender specific, but ladies working the fields and crafting was the norm and still is the norm in many places. The ability of an average household to have a modern life with all conveniences and only one person in formal employment was a relatively short period in human history. It does seem like a very pleasant idea though and something we might aspire to, or at least have as a realistic option. Limit mortgages to single income only to pull the value of residential land down?
@@ABBZ120it actually hasn't been the standard for most of history. In Africa women worked, got the water from miles away, etc. working with plants is very hard. Brazil/South America had women doing their own major tasks as well. You had kids at the tree, picked them up, and then kept working.
Great explanation. Manufacturing is picking up so fingers crossed. Services are good for uplifting the middle class but the number of jobs is not going to increase in services because there is literally no need of extra work force in services sector. Manufacturing sector is the only sector which can employ in mass.
True. But manufacturing is only increasing in specific states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. States which used to be manufacturing hubs like Punjab and West Bengal are seeing their manufacturing decreasing as they prioritize giving freebies to farmers and others over creating and nurturing businesses. Then there’s Bihar.
@@artman12manufacturing is only half the equation. Logistics is the other half. India will need an efficient transportation system to move vast quantities of material and goods from the ports to the factories and from the factories back to the ports. China had 40 years to perfect this and they're staying on top of it, which is why they're still highly competitive in mid-level manufacturing and they've broken into high level manufacturing, producing electric cars and now microchips.
@@eugeneng7064 The Indian government is now investing considerably to developing dedicated railway freight corridors and expressways to transport goods from the interior to the ports efficiently. But it’s less than China because India started developing these infrastructure projects only recently.
@@artman12 how are her ports doing? And the bureaucracy? İf India cannot build/develop good deep water ports and cut all the red tape/corruption all that effort is for naught
Giving it Cultural reasons is really weak point.. It's like saying in a village children are not going to school because parents don't want them to be educated but main problem is there is no school in village in first place.
@@AmishKumar-lc7zs can't have stable family without money. Well you're indian, I don't expect commen sense from those who follow such regressive thoughts in name of culture, that's why India is poor.
3 out of 4 women are unemployed in India on paper but this isn't as black and white as it seems to be. There are various aspects of it most importantly culture. Indian society is extremely conservative, much more conservative that Western conservatism. Women working outside when men are already working and bringing money isn't considered something to be proud of in most Indian families. Most Indian women however do get equal education just like boys but most of them work only when they are unmarried and after marriage they are supposed to be housewives rather than working women. In India, the poorest women are working and employed because their husbands alone can't feed their entire families. The middle class and lower middle class families are prosperous enough to sustain themselves without the income of female members and they are socially most conservative, so they restrict their women from working. The upper middle class and rich families again have more female members working because they are also socially liberal. In my own case my mother was a teacher before marriage, left the job after marriage and my birth and after 10 years again started working as a teacher in government school as I and my sister weren't small enough to be looked after by her. The economic mobility of Indian women is thus mostly constrained by societal expectations, post marriage household chores and taking care of children.
@@brandon8900Under modern view of gender equality, you are absolutely right. I view this in the same way. However I'm not justifying anything in my comment, I'm simply explaining why employment of women in India is so low.
@@user-op8fg3ny3j It's not healthy for the woman. Whether it leads to a better families is also debatable. If this system was super perfect, then india would have zero problems. Ideally both parents should work but the family should be able to be maintained by one income.
Well there's two kinds within the diaspora : 1. Migrants in Gulf Monarchies 2. Permanent Residents of Western Countries ( India doesn't allow dual citizenship) Migrants in Gulf monarchies mostly work in blue collar jobs and send back some of their income as remittance which has a direct impact on the economy ... Now permanent resident types can't do much unless they are businessmen and therefore they can invest in any sector of the Indian economy ( most investment is only In tech though for some reason)
@@ArawnOfAnnwn I agree ... it highlights how we missed becoming a manufacturing hub. even Vietnam, Bangladesh and Malaysia were able to do it despite their smaller population. ItllThat failure was because of our lack of infrastructure like dedicated Freight Corridor and water supply. Also it was bad industrial support laws, restrictive labor laws and corrupt politicians.
This video doesn't account the fact that cost of living is very low in India. That's why it doesn't required much to sustain a family of 4. An income of 800 dollars is enough to have middle class living in India.
@@MarketsDriveTheWorld Yes you should. Earning and Saving in USD/ EURO and moving to cheaper countries with weaker currency is very common and well known.
What a shitty world where honor is tied to whatever your daughter is doing. Honor should be tied to how free your daughters are to do what they want or their level of autonomy. If your daughters are not safe, that is bad, but I guess it can be hard to make them safer, though it should be of high priority.
@xynyde0 It is too tiring to explain things already known however if you search about major cities in India like Mumbai and especially places in the South of India, you'll find that they are way safer than rural places and less-developed places. I am talking about demographics not only my experience. Because that is not being talked about in this comment section
So basically, to sum it up, there are two reasons: because India’s government regulations, companies tend to be small in size, leading to fewer jobs for women to occupy; and also because of the quick rise of China and its effects becoming a global economic transformation, India’s manufacturing economical opportunities were largely oppressed and people had no choice but to develop other jobs that aren’t suitable to women.
I do feel that women should also get into job market in all sectors but my question is; Do we have abundance of jobs for men? Job market has same size for both the genders but if we add women work force in the same job market then it will just fuel the unemployment... First we should focus on Job market rather than gender employment game!!
Come to think of it, when I went to India for that 1 year test production contract, I couldn't find female secretary which is very weird. I didn't look myself but I hire a dude to do it and he said it's very difficult. I just want business done, with or without Mr.Dickerson, so I didn't press on and get another dude to do the job for that one year. Strange how when you don't question it, such issue can fly under the redar, no matter how close you are.
@@Keylevitation umm......in some cases....yeah.....i mean low level jobs like train tc and all......but not in high level jobs like petroleum engineer in state owned oil company
As an indian watching Your video I want to thank you for making this detailed case study....our country is growing at a fast pace but we need to increase to participication of women's not only in services but also in labour sector
As a fully employed non-Indian non-woman, this really spoke to me
Non indian man fool. Everyone is not gender fluid who denies basic biology.
No problem. I want to marry Indian women, give them $500 a month allowance
@@dongshengdi773 have you considered just being attractive to women instead. You don't need to buy their loyalty via an "allowance" ugh.
@@hayleyxyzLet him cook
@@houseplant1016 He's not cooking
As an unemployed woman in india, this hits hard lol. I don't need to work, because my family is financially stable, and I don't really want to work for pennies for jobs I'm overqualified for. No one really questions it, I just waste my time doing nothing. But, also, feel very lost in life. :(
Fuck, talk about female privilege
You could always try to start your own business too
Use the disposable income to multiply wealth or increase rate of domestic savings. Occupational achievement is the primary motivator to be temporarily happy, peace and all comes later.
@@joeysworldsewer not in india lol
good luck with the current market, over 95% chance you'll fail hard (not even break even) in all the major cities
You are not overqualified for those jobs, lolz. What makes you think you deserve better?
While no one talks about Child Abuse, let me get on with it.
Many daughters in India are trapped by toxic families on purpose, to keep the from getting jobs & becoming independent.
Yes, that includes adult-daughters.
My own parents deliberately ruined my career 4 times, and stole money from my account to keep me from moving out. My mother is horribly overbearing, and insisted on coming to interviews with me (despite me having previous work experience). She refused to let me step out of the house.
Currently, I'am homeless after they stole my money. I'am still trying to get back on my feet. It's incredibly hard, despite being overqualified when you have zero resources to work with.
Did u try to report this to the police? Why r u not taking any action?
@Damnme719 They don't do anything. Because they still carry this backwards mentality that the daughters are properties of their father.
Also, do not assume I haven't taken any action. I did what I could. There's not much you can do with zero help and support.
@@Damnme719 it is useless as either they will say that it is a family matter
Something is missing
@@Damnme719 Why did you assumed I haven't taken any action?
I did do all the necessary steps. Alas, the police in our country still thinks the parents owns their kids. Hence, my situation.
This also correlates with the brain drain phenomenon India is also dealing with - if all these highly educated Indians leave for opportunities abroad because they can’t find suitable work domestically, then there’s less incentive to return and India risks losing that skilled worker for good
imagine, hordes of people from the subcontinent are working in sillicon valleys, but there are zero software companies coming from any countries in the subcontinent
@@briantarigan7685 "zero software companies coming from any countries in the subcontinent" - lmao wut?! India has plenty of software companies. Our growth model is heavily built on software companies. We don't have a shortage of those, what we need is more manufacturing i.e. factories. More software companies isn't gonna achieve anything for us.
@@briantarigan7685 Ahh, comparing immigrants to "hordes". Always a classic!
@@briantarigan7685Are you insane? India has tons of software companies.
Didn't you watch the video, India has no lack of service oriented companies. What it lacks is manufacturing.
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
My own sister was a Electrical and electronics student who finished her graduation with a good rank. The reason she was sent to study there was that she could earn stipends and the diploma was thought free of cost. She was eligible for a decent job but couldn't get one as she was the only girl in the batch moreover the company that trained her reduced its presence in india and the competition was fierce too. She finally got a job at a sales comapny where she quickly adapted to it , she was earning and got some benifits from the the company. Soon my mother started to force her to get married pushing my dad to arrange for her marriage. She got married at the age of 25 and her in laws and husband didn't allow her to work. I thought her working years were over but astonishingly she found a job at a computer hardware dealer where she has been working from an year. Now she is 33, she takes care of her 8 year old son and does all the house chores. Her husband doesn't earn much either and also doesn't help her with anything in the house. This video made me realize that this is a far greater problem that happens in every household in the country.
wow, sounds like hell to be an Indian woman. So much BS "cultural" stuff
Deep cultural and social problem since ancient time.
@@jackjones4824 But India's average working hours are already 52 hours. Many people work 60+ hours a week here.
That is the same story for every middle class girl unfortunately. I hope she is able to provide a better future to her child and to herself also
@@SuyashSharma8and middle class married men are having parties alone enjoying himself? Men are expected to be the breadwinner and pay most of the bills in most cases forcing him to work until he dies, but God forbid women do chores that too with the help of maids.
All traditional benefits for women are okay but any traditional woman responsibilities are oppressive
The point about the labour inspector corruption is spot on. I would even add on that a lot of the small business owners are in on promulgating this toxic environment because a mentality of 'We won't move forward and therefore we won't allow anyone to move forward' is prevalent in the community.
My mom ran a B2B textile manufacturing business and the second she decided to expand from 8 to 15 employees, her competition informed the authorities who haggled her for bribes that amounted to a significant percentage of the company's liquidity, so she was forced to lay off her staff, reincorporate and pivot to a B2C model, which ran profitably until the same competition cheated her by placing orders with bouncing checks and strategically undercutting prices at the time.
When she went to the cops, they demanded a bribe that would ultimately make her company go bankrupt so she decided to liquidate everything and exit.
We really need to come to terms with our internal toxicities toward each other. We saw it with Prithviraj Chauhan 900 years ago and we're still seeing it today.
License raj and non sense labour laws allow these scumbag "inspectors" To exist.
Same thing happened with my Uncle, RIP!
That's a good point. It actually explains a lot for someone who observes from the outside like me.
Thanks for the testimony.
But now labour laws have been eased right on central level
Having your women enter the workforce is a hidden death trap. Fight it!
The urban-rural divide in India is crazy, something you should also talk about. In Mumbai, where I live, these numbers would be almost shocking to a great chunk of people because they have no idea how bad the situation is for people in the rural sections of the country. Here, gender discrimination, at least for fresher jobs in media and tech, is unheard of. Our trains are usually filled with a healthy mix of both genders and I for one definitely see more women than men in my workplace.
Same in Delhi NCR.
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
Rural women work alongside men at least here in Telangana
It's the people in the cities who are always in the job search
Indian culture is predominantly family oriented, with mothers taking up the family responsibilities including raising the children. Studies have shown that full time motherhood increases healthy attitudes among children, for which they will be thankful. My 17yr old son thanks his mom and I for the healthy attention we gave him. My wife, despite having been highly educated, stayed home to raise him. I had to work extra hard but in the end it's worth it. My son is about to go college and he is transformed into a fine young man, thanks to his mother's undivided attention and teaching. In summary, this is also a choice of many families if their finances can afford it.
As far as I have seen, IT companies in India discriminate against men when hiring freshers. For example, women-only internships in companies like Salesforce (which are turned into jobs), women-only coding competitions, women-only jobs etc. This is mostly the case with MNCs and a few of the very high paying jobs.
As a student of a tier 1 college in India, this is precisely why I would soon have to also do a master's. The job competition is too high even among men, exacerbating the problem even more for women, and basically everyone. My personal belief is that we need to build our way out, as did China, the jobs will soon follow.
Don't forget to vote the right person then.
@@PseudoProphetATMH🧡
@@PseudoProphet You mean Rahul
@@polaris1985 The economy was so good under Congress, I'm sure the dynastic moron born with a silver spoon will be even better than his dad, grandma, and great grandma. Pure delusion.
his name sugests that he is not foolish enough to do that mistake. liberandus does that mistake@@polaris1985
This analysis literally X-rayed almost all aspects of Indian economy, society, culture and comparative economic history of India with Bangladesh and China, wow!
In India, 45% of STEM Education graduates are women.
37% of IT Workers in India are women.
This proportions are higher even than many western countries.
The lack of market incentives are stronger than 'culture'.
India also has the highest proportion of women pilots in the world- which shows that where quality jobs are present, women do have incentives to work.
@@Kalinga_3 He just said in the video only two types of women are working either very low income family ones which can't support their families by only men working like labourers the other ones are women who are highly educated and earn high salaries in service sector. The middle income ones are the ones not willing to work either in low quality jobs like maid, labourers or are not getting high paying jobs so they just decide to stay home and take care of the children and cooking.
This is why bangladesh has 40% women employment because the garment industry employs all the women and it is not a shamefull job women look down upon.
@@iamnotanundercoverfederalagent not really. These kind of topics have entire books written on them
@@Kalinga_3 always take positive feedback positively. It is well known fact he is talking about.
Congratulations, you have been fooled by coloniser propaganda. Well, not a surprise given your name suggesting your mind set
Something similar is happening here in Italy. Wages are stagnating since the 70s and part of the reason is the size of companies: bigger companies are more regulated and too many employers prefer having fewer workers in order to skirt regulations and avoid taxes. The net result is that many are self employed and mainly work for a company, making them a de facto employee.
I wonder why Italy never embraced libertarian economic policies, would pair well with its culture
@@christianweibrecht6555it pairs with anarchism/libertarian socialism, which was exceptionally early and strong in Italy. Spanish anarchists which were major part in Spanish civil war largery derived their politics from Italy or were Italian themselves. "working yourself to death but at least it's not government's boot" is more American than Italian
@@zuz-ve4ro socialism will never succeed in societies that lack strong civil cohesion & spirit
@zuz-v4ro You and I must have very different understandings of what “working yourself to death” means. Didn’t know 40hrs a week and triple the income constituted as such.
@@christianweibrecht6555socialism will never succeed cause state capitalism is in itself unproductive and distruction. Some socialist measures are pretty healthy overall - most just increse burocracy and block organic development of an economy.
That U curve is 100% correct. We shifted from agriculture to service sector directly but now government is trying hard to bring manufacturing jobs and developing infrastructure for that too. I hope they succeed and we see the results soon.
The intresting thing which I found is most companies prefer less than 10 works due to regulations. I think this is mostly true for manufacturing sector but some service based companies also do the same.
maybe India could create special economic zones that have minimal regulations like China did
@@christianweibrecht6555 yes the government has made some special economic zones for manufacturing and service sector as well but they need to make much more.
A stat he missed was urban population is less than 36% right now, need to expand the smaller cities now, Delhi Mumbai already too big and its not a good idea to keep expending them for the next 36%.
Manufacturing is absolutely essential to give better jobs to the masses of less-educated people. Some states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra and even Uttar Pradesh now are trying a lot to attract manufacturing companies. But then there’s Bihar- the poorest state with the most unemployed workforce driving businesses away even though it needs these job-creating businesses the most. Other states which used to be manufacturing hubs like Punjab and West Bengal are actually going through de-industrialization as they’re wrongly prioritizing giving more freebies to farmers and others while neglecting the manufacturing industry. In Kerala, rules and regulations with the strongly anti-business atmosphere is driving businesses away- Kitex, which was the pride of Kerala’s garment manufacturing decided to relocate to Telangana.
I mean, if construction can be done effectively on manufacturing infrastructure, we still have a good chance. Service jobs can bring in capital. But we need another Make In India/Make For India push. I wonder why all that stopped 4-5 years ago.
I lived in India for a year. I saw that nearly all woman aged 50+ were stay-at-home Moms, but almost all of the teenager girls were hoping to enter the workforce after college. If employment opportunities can increase, the young women of India would love to have careers! 🇮🇳
Problem is those teen girls are all studying and will go to college and will expect a job in the service sector at a decent salary so they can sustain their expenses of living alone in a city and thats the problem because of limited job creations in the service sector of India and I think new jobs will come in the manufacturing sector of India which they might not want to work in, that is why you need one generation to work in the factories and the next generation goes to service sector to work in offices in the corporate world. India is doing it all wrong.
Already a workforce crunch, and you want to further stress that?
You know that is quite literally a race to the bottom, and the main reason the US is failing.
@@polaris1985they'll just move to another country. Braindrain
My mom sees. Like stay at home mother. She is 53. But she manages her own investments she earned all these years. She is enjoying her early retirement and has plans to start her own new business in next few years, the land is purchased. She is taking it slow. But nothing wrong with it. She is also healing from few health conditions and it’s better we address it now rather than later.
The fact that woman will be valued only if she is working in corporate is stupid.
Many fo my aunts SEEMs as at home mothers. But they also have investments in real estate and have their own way of living life. Earning money. One even earns by teaching yoga. Another by investing in new businesses, she knows the textile sector and she invests in new boutiques.
It’s funny that few of my aunts who worked corporate actually belittle other women, when they actually earn more, employ more ethically and treat the employees as family.
@@xerogueno, we women don’t necessarily move to another country. If one avoids mega city, rest of teh places are good enough to have a decent job and survive on that salary and save.
World forgets that Indians have tendency to save and invest and not splurge. That helps.
And most people in mega city have to get married, because it’s haughty impractical to give that much of rent for one single person.
Being an Indian interested in the topic, no one else and I mean not one person has explained the issues like you have.
Indian society needs to keep the women unemployed and stay home so they can make babies and serve Indian men.
You still believe "unsafe for women" and "purity of women" are legitimate? They are outdated and unproven rhetorics, and Polymatter did no research. No neutrality
You dont search more i guess. There are many indian think tank youtube.
@@joshuatheunkownuniverse.2475 none of them have this presentation
*which is a typical neo liberal colonizer point of analysing, not from point of family or broader perspective of prosperity and happiness.
I worked several weeks in India helping to train mostly recent women college graduates. I was told that only a couple years before I was there, 90+% would be married within a year of graduation and the personal section of the local papers weren't people looking to date but rather looking to get married and college degrees were often stated requirements. The manager I worked mostly closely with, a 30-something year old man was actively being married off by his mom, looking for a Bengali-speaking (the family's primary language) college graduate that had no work ambition, so he could pick and move if necessary for better work. That came into play when he later moved to Finland for work and new wife went with him. Within the work groups women could move up and be promoted, there were some good female managers, but many women in my group were too shy and not forward enough to become those managers. We weren't paying these young women much money by western standards but that money was starting to cause a revolution, increasing possibilities for young women, first purchase usually a moped, and it turned out that most of these women employed a (usually illiterate) woman to take care of household chores like cleaning and meal prep. whereas back in the US I made a lot more money but still washed my own clothes, cleaned toilets etc.
I didn't realise how pathetic men's involvement in household chores was till I moved out of my home and started living with a roommate
My father is impatient and can't stand my ADHD mother's(and mine) pace of house work, so he basically does everything - but apparently I am excellent at house hold chores when compared to my roommate lol who has a stay at home mother doing everything for him
Those "illiterate" women are on the extreme left of the U graph. Their participation in the workforce is immense, especially in cities. They never sit at home as they can't afford to and the labor market being cheap makes their services affordable which is not the case in developed nations. These women are employed, the high paid women are employed, the issue is with those who are in between. Their lives aren't bad enough to push them into the low paying jobs but also not good enough to compete for the high paying ones and if they can marry a man who can keep them there then staying in that limbo is socially acceptable.
As an Indian, I really liked your analysis. In fact, I like almost all of your videos and would like you to make more videos on India like this, just like you do with China's. Thank you.
Our RUclipsr is just so smart
This isn't him doing the research. He found a pre existing academic paper which talks about this issue. RUclipsrs don't create things from scratch 😂
hopefully there is a possible feed back loop where increased information helps India improve itself which makes it more relevant thus increasing interest
@@rutvikrs Would you rather the video NOT based on peer-reviewed research?
This explains why China is cracking down on typical western neo liberal companies that do such kind of shoddy research job and not allowed RUclips on its soil. India needs to at least create competition to RUclips which boosts neo liberals lik this who prommote fraud think tanks and suppress other point of view.
Thank you for bringing to light what most people fail to see in India itself ❤
Spot on, would like to add that a lot of urban families who send their daughters to college to learn DO want their daughters to work, from what I've seen. What I've seen at least in my social circles is that the women may even end up getting a job, but then they get married and the default expectation is that she won't work anymore due to having to do all the household chores and such.
This problem is exacerbated with kids. Having kids is also a default expectation, and women who hold on to their jobs even after marriage by balancing both household chores and their jobs often have to let go when the kid comes into the equation because looking after the child is also in their hands now.
Very, very few are able to hold on after this point. And for those who do, it is a living hell-- balancing their jobs, household chores and kids means waking up earlier than everyone else and sleeping after everyone else, all in all no rest whatsoever. Even on holidays, the women have to work the house.
Another point worth adding is that since there is a cultural expectation for men to be the breadwinner and support their family as well, even if the family is barely scraping by on the income earned having a conversation with your wife where you both might consider going to work is just not a thing that you do.
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
Why do so many Indian women get married instead of setting up their respective careers?
Indian women need to stop marrying and start focusing on financial stability.
@@debodatta7398You're going around to every comment to say this, and it's added little to nothing to the conversation.
As a man who has lived in India for his entire life. This perspective of why there is low labor among women was very interesting
It sounds like they don’t want to work
@@nobodythenobody9779 Yeah they don't.
@@harisadu8998 reading the comments from Indian women here, most say it’s not worth their time
@@nobodythenobody9779No, they do, they just don't want to be slaves. Getting paid nothing isn't working, that's slavery.
@@nobodythenobody9779 1. who does?😸 2. and who does for free?🤷
as a indian in early 20s , i found this really accurate and eye opening
I am surprised that a non Indian RUclipsr has found the actual reason to this problem..
Jaspaal, he is half Gori.
Great explanation of a nuanced, tricky issue. Well done
Not really that tricky at all. Women stay home when they can. Because the whole mother thing yanno?
@@josephmelton4721Grandparents can take care of child issue yanno
@@josephmelton4721Bangladesh has the same cultural bias. Clearly that’s not the only reason
You really work hard to maintain such thorough and interesting research into little known topics. Huge props to your channel.
Women graduates are married off mostly arranged marriage and most families don't want a working woman because of honour issues, ego issues as conservative Indian society think a husband who allows her wife to work is weak and can't earn enough for the family, and working woman won't do house chores as they would be working atleast for 9 to 5 a day. Women mostly don't have a choice. And lack of jobs, unemployment, geographical reasons etc also fuels this problem
Entry level jobs pay pennies for full time work in india, people who are career focused are forced to go through that initial hell.
Hence many young women whose parents are financially stable simply prefer to remain unemployed, get married and become a housewife rather than to suffer in this hell of an job market.
Only misandrists think that housewife is degrading work when it is actually the most fulfilling
Bro. You're talking about upper middle class women. Almost of India's population is still rural.
@@ahmednadim5859true. Majority of india is still rural which op doesn't know about or care enough to understand it
India's urban population is at 35% with villages being more urbanised than ever. There are employment opportunities everywhere. It's just that for some women it's just not worth it.
That issue is not exclusive to India, it's everywhere and pay depends on the cost of living (usually just enough to cover basic necessities and a bit more). My parents went through the same thing but eventually it worked in favour of them and for quite a long time, my mum earned more than my dad even though they both had similar educational backgrounds.
3:18, the moment that makes all Polymatter videos special - that taking of conventional expectations, as he calls it, "Case: Closed" and digging much deeper. You do an incredible service for any topic you cover.
I never thought of the consequences of skipping manufacturing and going straight to services. It’s an intricate ecosystem.
You can also see that in many rural areas which became tourist hotspots. Service sector work in hotels and restaurants are plentiful in the high season, yet unemployment is rampant in the low season since most rural areas lack manufacturing jobs, and agriculture jobs can´t keep up with such a huge wave of unemployed service workers...
This is so sad and depressing. In America almost every single privately owned gas station/convenient store is run by an Indian family. Such nice people. I go out of my way to do business with these people because I know I'm contributing to a family and not some thankless heartless corporation.
Cause their they get safe from Indian mentality
I would rather go to walmart/other chain stores because then my money will be helping my own countrymen who are employed there to get better wages
@@sleepyfella
Wow!!! That's so bizarre that anyone would think that going to Walmart is a good thing.
They're all the same. Small convenience stores bevome big corporate stores too. Samsung started that way and a few Indian owned group companies in my country started that way too. Save your money for yourself. No-one deserves your money more than the person that worked for it. Pay yourself by aiming for financial freedom and early retirement.
@@sleepyfella who's your countrymen white people
As an Indian women The main factor for women doing less job especially in states like UP, Bihar(highest populated states) is obsession of parents with Gov Job as they are considered as safe and respectful rather than demeaning. So in general women are preferred in the filled of Teaching, Doctor, Engineering ,IAS,IPS, Banking, or any other high profile Government jobs, apart from that any other job is seen as not honorable and safe. So there are very few gov job available cuz of high competition and reservation So in general after marriage they stop working,as they consider private sector as unsafe for women So if parents obsession with Gov jobs not end nothing can be done about that . Now people mentality is changing so i hope there will be some
And 50% of UP start ups are female owned or a female co founder higher than any western country.
Tell the slave they have a home life?
@@bunk95 what are u trying to imply?
@@bunk95 what's 'bout western girls who sell their bodies on onlyfans websites 😂
Nursing and bike
Even in india ,men are not able to sustain family because of growing housing and livelihood expense , there is intense competition for jobs even for low paid jobs
Well u nicely explained about reason rather than creating controversy
Which will put rising pressure against the patriarchy trap, and hopefully by the time those household incomes rise, there will be more acceptable and pay for women to stay employed.
Indians are always so worried about controversy, yet y'all do things like annex Kashmir or assassinate people in other countries.
No, all women entering workforce will go is even further devalue labor and cause further inflation for basic necessities. It will also make it difficult to have a family. What needs to happen is society needs to understand that being a family caregiver is far more important than being some high-powered corpo.
@@hellgoramathan make it law with payment being wife, as a profession with rights and obligations, with a salary and insurance etc.
If u can't than don't block someone just cause that person so happens to have a uterus.
@@hellgorama You could also improve the economy and productivity by enslaving a bunch of people. Women are humans too and deserve to live free of discrimination. If your economy and culture requires that women be treated like second class citizens to stay afloat, it has failed already.
India faces a significant challenge in the coming years as advancements in AI technology will render many services currently offered by its workforce to Western countries obsolete. AI's ability to understand and communicate effectively will lead to the replacement of roles in tech support and customer service industry. This shift will have a profound impact on the Indian labor market, especially for those serving the US market. The transition period has already started and you cannot imagine how bad this will hit India.
After you factor in the damage this could potentially (and most likely, will) cause to the Indian economy, and the country as a whole, I think it would be an understatement to say that we're headed towards absolute disaster.
well india is transitioning to manufacturing and building infrastructure at faster rate than ever before , so i dont think we will hit a wall .
AI Companies now owned by Indians.
spot on. unless we can harness that “window of opportunity” as mentioned in the video before ai is powerful enough to replace service-related jobs, we’re headed for a nasty economic shock
😂😂 Indians will make ai useless keep watching
My mom has a degree in commerce and computers and she is unemployed .....she was expected to look after me and the household work.....now she has lost all confidence and can't work......also my dad is pathetic with money and earning enough......if my mom had worked maybe my family didn't have financial problems....she just wasted her life for nothing....it saddens me.
Maybe ask her if she thinks she wasted her life? I would recommend you to watch some documentary on dharavi, the biggest slum of Asia or the biggest dumping ground of india in delhi
Thank You for covering this topic PolyMatter, I hope government sees this and works on this crucial issue that is presenting as a roadblock to India’s growth. Focusing on Women Safety should be paramount.
never knew I was an Indian women
😂😂
Lmfao, you win
Now go look pretty in a saree.
Show bobs and vegana
Damn it
This is really Sad😔. I still remember when my mother wanted to do a job but my grandfather objected to it and my father had to move to a different city.
As an indian i can say it's almost true, but its changing, new generation women's are working and productive, while the 19's womens are still just a house wife..
Mostly they choose to became house wife for take care of family and children...
Now things are changed a lot...
To give a sense, there were 44 Central labour laws until 2020 and still are 100's of laws & regulations at State levels, each differ where you are. This makes reforms very difficult as labour inspectors operate in State & District jurisdiction level.
Unfortunately those labour codes you talking about are still not implemented!
This video has somewhat lit a spark in me. Next year i am starting my college. I want to work on the solution which already exists and find new ways also on this situation
Good luck mate
this was a really good video. I would like to add some points :
1. since the marriages are arranged, the women have to migrate to a different place 99% of the times which makes them quit their existing job, if they were allowed to have any in the first place.
2. most college goers are married off as soon as they graduate as graduation is only a thing to put in your matrimonial resume
3. most men and their families prevent women from working saying that he earns enough for both of them, while constantly nagging about the meagre income. happens in most households. There is complete control over finances. Women live off of meagre pocket money given by their husbands which might range from as little as 500-5000 rupees per month. Most women don't have a bank account either.
4. most in laws live with the couple and make it a very toxic environment and pressue the couple to produce children, preferably male (because women are burden), this is to be done within a year or it would be a dishonour. and as soon as the kid is born the woman is made to sit at home and do everything from a-z as the husband commands her to do every tiny job of his.
4. Most parents mildly enforce STEM or management courses on their children irrespective of gender which obviously trains them for the service sector. The children would feel that they don't deserve to work in a manufacturing sector as it doesn't match what they studied for and it doesn't pay as much as a service job does. it's also about honour and reputation which comes with being an engineer or a doctor or lawyer.
I recommend watching Soch by mohak mangal's video on the same.
I'm in awe of the accuracy and depth of this video.
Most of the points that you talked about, be it women being held back from working due to social pressure and unsafe work environments, or the fact that most uneducated people that were displaced out of the agriculture sector have resorted to working in harsh and low-paying construction jobs, or the fact that because India skipped the manufacturing phase, there is a massive influx of job-seekers in a limited number of decent-paying employment opportunities, and several other points that you make in this video, is something I see every day with my own eyes, just not in the context and perspective that you presented them in.
Wow! Thank you for making this video.
Abhishek power, great analysis there Sir . The manufacturing technology is the the only thing that made China filthy rich and that India and most of the african continent needs . its a shame that local complexities are so toxic that it'd be hard to progressively implement it.
I ve been following this channel for 5 years. I was surprised to see video about India.
Sagar, makes you happy doesn't it.
As an Indian I want to share some of my observation:
Many woman who were in poor/ middle class families do work. Woman in rich families rarely work. Highly educated woman do work irrespective of family background. But in some families some string attached to women where their in laws dont allow them to work which is really outrageous and stupid. But that's what india is... In some backward villages mostly in northern part of india don't even allow women to go out ....
that 'in laws denying the woman to work' thing happens a lot more than we think. It's disgusting honestly, in laws think that they own their daughter in law now
@@meghanarora4136 Why do so many Indian women get married instead of setting up their respective careers?
Indian women need to stop marrying and start focusing on financial stability.
Nowadays majority upper class women do work as per my surroundings.
@@anuragchakraborty8766you think Indian women are given a choice, they are forced into marriage unless they have to face consequences.
@@Burgerandketchup well they need to grow a spine first and foremost & learn to stand up for themselves.
The fact about Manufacturing is very important. Service sector jobs are less in no. And require specialized skills and background that a company can give training for but you need to have some technical background. The thing is majority of people cannot afford such means to learn technical skills which they could've done if the government focused on Manufacturing.
You have hit the mark. Now that I think about it, I've seen too many cases where an educated women don't pursue jobs or resign their jobs after marrying someone with decent salary. Based on personal experience, I think as a society we have moved away from the 'honour' thing. Even in conservative villages, women are being expected to provide/add to the household. The economy however still seems to be a bit of a problem.
I just feel that we have failed to bank on the manufacturing sector despite having a large workforce as a result of late liberalization of economy.
Man your analysis is spot on...100% correct.
As a working professional in India, I occasionally find myself inspired by those who truly live their lives to the fullest despite not being part of the workforce.
I think anyone would be inspired by this. You work to live, not live to work. If you can live your life to the fullest without working, you should be doing that. The problem is if unemployment is preventing you from living your life to the fullest.
"those who truly live their lives to the fullest despite not being part of the workforce." definition of rich
This is amazingly well done. The ground reality hits hard and you have given proper explanation. It kind of motivated me to grind a bit more so that I can help my fellow Indians.
Unionize and organize. That's the only way to actually help your fellow Indians.
Unless you mean you want to help the Ambani family buy more stuff. In which case yeah, grind harder.
@@Praisethesunson I will take the positives from this comment
@@Praisethesunson Apparently you didn't watch the video. Most Indians are employed in very small companies, where there isn't much scope to unionize. India's problem is NOT Ambanis (or other big companies), who in spite of their big organizations have a tiny sliver of the overall pie.
@@jarjarbinks3193 Reliance industries owns 7% of India's entire GDP. You are a poor so of course you wouldn't know that.
The informal sector isn't a bunch of small businesses.
The manual scavengers could unionize. But they would be murdered if they tried.
This video is garbage and paints a ridiculous view of India's problems over economic output.
Watching this video one would think child labor doesn't exist in India. Or the caste system.
@@Praisethesunsonunionizing works against business's interest of low wages , exploitative work. It's the very reason why developed countries outsource whenever possible , to lower the cost and deal with as less humans as possible. Sucks to be average joe.
Think of productivity difference between gov and private employees. They get paid 1/3 of secured jobs , provide more to businesses and economy.
I'm an Indian woman who was raised there for the first 27 years of my life. Moved abroad after being mistreated in the workforce over and over. In my five years of working in India I have faced everything from sexual harassment (which was not looked into despite raising multiple complaints), being paid less than my male friends (one of whom was a college dropout while I had a bachelor's degree), not being taken seriously when asked for leave, being told that I will "get married and quit anyway", not being given the same respect and basic privileges that my male colleagues recieved. Most of the women I know who work are working towards the goal of leaving the country for better and more gainful employment opportunities. After moving abroad, I am finally being paid according to my talent and merit rather than my gender or marital status.
And this is the perspective of someone who only worked white collar jobs in India. I cannot even fathom the plight of women in blue collar industries.
You are talking about westernized women.
@@somakchatterjee6429 I am talking from the perspective of a white collar worker, not a "Westernized woman".
@@Nix_101stop talking bulls&&t
You've made it , more power to you 🎉.
@@Nix_101 I'm quite amazed how they have agreed to hike the wages if I be there I would have either ducted your wage or had you on the notice period
work less ,talk much
A meticulously research work done with spot on facts and rationale behind them. All points mentioned are valid and genuine.
A really well researched and well documented video.
Well done man!
This segment is really about how college educated young people can’t find jobs despite strong GDP growth. I had no idea it was so bad.
@@amandacollyer645 gdp growth is mainly due to the upskillment of it professionals, people around me have been getting 20% increment each year for 3-4 years
Incredibly insightful. It's really sad that India has stunted it's own development by so much years by preventing manufacturing from taking off. India should've done the same as Bangladesh, the entire world would benefit from it.
India is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical manufacturers on the planet.
@@Praisethesunson India is also the most populated country on the planet.
India is working to try and fix that error, which is why attracting Foxconn is such a big deal for example
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
@debodatta7398 key is India needs to increase its manufacturing and make streets safer for women
I am surprised by the depth of research & analysis this video has on indian job market its really impressive ❤
What a great and informative video . No beating around the bush no ugly racism just straight up facts .
Thankyou ❤
Just a typical neo liberal, western supramist point of view of analysing.
@@saurabhade1079just because we are part of the western world don't make us liberals. I'm a American yet I dislike our liberal policies like LGBTQ. I am more conservative. Wishing for us to be strong in manufacturing and services. They both have huge advantages.
A big reason in rural areas is probably that there's few opportunity other than hard labour which even the rural families want to stop their women from doing and they actually stop them from working if a man gets a job in the city. As those labour jobs are low pay and very arduous. It's a sign of wealth for poor family of you women are no longer forced to work anymore to earn for food
Yep and when women get married, it's also a cultural expectation in India for women to stay home and be housewives
The biggest reason for this in my opinion is that men in India don't cook at all and if your salary is low which majority of Indians have you can't order food daily from the restaurants because its too expensive and not healthy, you cant also hire a cook because it is too expensive for middle income family. Men don't wash cloths, iron them, dont clean the house etc. If thier wife if also working a 9 to 5 job then its too much load on her and then on top of that preganancy and child care problems for them. Its basically impossible for the women of the middle income family to work a low paying job do all that so they just stay at home and does the house work.
It takes Rs 6000 for a cook 5k for a maid for cleaning and washing cloths/dishes and atleast 10k for childcare(probably more per month), in Delhi average expense for a family of 3 is almost Rs 40,000 to live a decent life with no saving so adding cook and childcare would make it Rs60,000 plus you need to save for healthcare and future education marriages of child and your old age retirement so you need atleast Rs100,000 to sustain this type of lifestyle where women can work, divide it by 2 and you get Rs50,000(6,00,00 per annum) for husband and wife to earn. Just by the income tax data just 2.24 crore people paid income tax in 2022-23, which works out to just about 1.6 per cent of the total population in India. so basically 90% of the population can't afford this type of lifestyle and so WOMEN DONT WORK AND TAKE CARE OF THE HOME.
@ibisarenotbinchickens9846 that does not contribute to econony
Women in india has to do men's work and her happy to serve family rather than train
Burst your bubble men in india do cook,clean house,wash clothes,and even iron their clothes even for their wives and children!
As an Indian man. Indian men around me won't even recognise this as an issue
When Men gets a job he is ready to marry an unemployed girl but when a woman gets a job she doesn't marry an unemployed boy.. The main reason is women's mentality is very backwards in India.. selfish and greedy nature of women needs to change
One more thing to add
These labour laws were reformed in 2020 by Central Govt, but most state Govt have not followed suit. These labour inspectors operate under State level jurisdiction.
Thus pushing reforms in India's labour sector is very difficult.
In America the rate is 49%, 49% of american women are unemployed. Also Indias rate varies heavily by state with the North Indian Hindi states of UP/Bihar/Haryana/Chandigarh all dragging the number down immensely with over 85% of women being unemployed.
Imo one of the biggest issues is a lack of willingness by many Indians to even acknowledge the cultural, structural and societal issues in their country. Talk to the average Indian and they'll tell you that the country is amazing, the best in every way, the sexism and sectarian problems don't exist, the weirdly small manufacturing base can be ignored and corruption in government is okay. The average Indian tells you that it's okay that so many of the country are still in poverty since a select few have become billionaires and the government spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a statue.
Sab changa si !
It's Dunning Kruger syndrome.
Average IQ in India is 76. lower than even Papua New Guinea
Damn you analysed it way too correctly,we have this mentality here " kaam chalau " ,it's basically as long it's working it's fine ,doesn't matter the efficiency,and trust me it's not good
It is all based on a thing called "statistics". Just "headlines" don't define things like "sexism" and "sectarian" problems in a country. In spite of its massive population, crushing population density, poverty, and diversity (from religious to linguistic to ethnic), there is simply no other country with the relativity stability of India! Yes, this includes even crimes. All the while being open and democratic. In comparison, even countries with a lot less population and a lot more homogenous have far more acrimonious sectarian divides. Not to mention being far less open and a lot more authoritarian. Most of the Middle Eastern countries fall in this category.
Dude you were totally sounding like a foreigner, until i read the 'statue' line.
as an Indian studying in a western country, I'm scared to return home after graduating :(
Why
You should return , you have comparative advantage
Don't. You've escaped the Matrix
lol@@piyushpati7319
Go to America. On the Internet people say it's bad but that's because people don't like the USA and blows the problems out of proportion without looking deep. Like our supposed gun problem which is ironic when you consider the states that have more gun laws have higher amounts of crime than in states with less gun restrictions. Or that we are all fat which is a flat out lie. Sure we have a higher obesity rate but it's not nearly as high as most believe it is.
My dad doesn't allow me to work. He is narcissist and i am trapped. He thinks women should not work.
You should make india actually on nebula
But much Indians can't afford nebula subscription
fr India's so massive its like its own world
no one from india would watch it + audiences around the world have very less interest in india than china. and unlike china where every problem might have different answers, in india it is usually societal norms.
@@abitofascientist That's not true social norms are the root but that doesn't mean they cause all the problems.Another major one is what I call the ""meh who cares approach to the problem"" .I can literally do a speeding and find corruption happening somewhere in less than a minute
As an Indian I'm kind of CEO myself
No problem. I want to marry Indian women, give them $500 a month allowance
:) lol. Nice one.
@@dongshengdi773if you lived in india you won't be earning 500 dollars a month. If you live in a rich one then you gotta provide 2500 min.
What india expected to have: youth = time = money
What india actually doing: time pass = money wasted
To all the Indians in the comments section, who think they're limited in India,
Come to Africa. I live in Kenya. I've been living here my whole life. You'll really be valued here.
Tq bro,but the thing is most indian parents don't want their daughter to go out at all,they want them to be married,live medicore life with useless hubby
Employment, even for men isn't easy by any means.
The competition is absolutely brutal
The title is clickbaity. 75% of Indian women ARE NOT unemployed. They are however not participating in the labor force. To be considered unemployed, you have to be eligible for work (aka adult), not working and actively looking for work.
The facts in the video are important and the gov should aim to improve the situation, but unemployment is a specific term in economics and not just a catch all term for people not working.
This is a well made video. You touched almost all aspects of the employment issue. Sadly India at the current rate looks like will miss the demographic dividend.
If any video talks about demographics dividend and GDP per capita or permanent and/or high salarised job in non contradictory way you should run away from that video as fast as possible
@@saurabhade1079wtf?
That Simpsons episode in India was accurate then about those laws on big companies with over ten employees! No wonder Mr Burns moved the nuclear power plant back to Springfield.
Just discovered this channel. Well, the algorithm did. Good work, added sub.
A lot of economic growth comes from transitioning small businesses to medium sized business. If hiring a tenth employee is that punishing, then they really need a more gradual transition of regulations to encourage and not discourage growth.
As a proud Indian citizen it was difficult for me to watch the first half of this video. But your analysis seems to have some valid points. India needs a major reform to its old laws derived from distorted communist mindset during the "license raj". Our MSMEs need to become bigger with 1000+ employees without government interference.
whats the point in being proud when you cant take valid critisizm
Proud Lodu… guu ke keede
@@kingskod I wouldn't be proud myself but to be fair, he took the criticism pretty constructively
Abolish the caste system
what are you proud about exactly?
Much like India, the philippines is a service oriented economy too with a median age roughly the same too at 27-28 afaicr. The only difference being is that in the philippines there is no stigma against women working. I do hope our country could also be strong in the manufacturing side though since at best, vietnam has already surpassed us on that side maybe at least a decade ago or more due to the prohibitive government policies detering foreign investments here
this isn't even an Indian problem , neighboring countries like Pakistan also have this problem but it has steadily decreased with more women getting educated . Even still in more conservative areas this isn't necessarily the case ,though the cities ''seem'' to have a steady decrease in this issue.
Your Best Video yet. It encapsultated a small brief of almost every issue facing India. If it could be modulated to reach the Indian people at scale that would be phenomenal.
As a properly employed and working Indian woman, didn’t know how rare I was🤣😂 Didn’t watch the full vid, but from personal experience, it’s straight up discrimination and exploitation from all sides and lack of any real protection, legal or otherwise.
Those videos always make me think "oh what a great place for a company to move to" and then a few minutes later "I really wouldn't want to deal with xy if I had a company there"
One of my seniors in college asked me , she got the job but you didnt and you have a family to take care of , how would you feel ?
Also, on a cultural level, India has not bought into the need for a two-income household. The man is still seen as the primary income source - evident from the way alimony laws are setup, and the woman as a primary care-giver for the children, evident in the way the custody laws are setup. The idea of requiring both the individuals in a marriage to work to support a family is the result of companies massively undercutting worker wages and salaries due to the large population of available labour. This in turn forced women to enter the job markets to increase the chances of earning a better income for the family, but caused a cycle of even more available labour in the market which companies can exploit by paying less on average as now the supply of labour is much higher than the available job opportunities. The problem is not why 75% of women are unemployed, but rather why we as a society, both in the west and in countries like India - have moved from being able to have families flourish with 1 employed individual to requiring 2 or even more. In the name of efficiency in production, economic growth and free markets, the quality of human life suffers.
Jason, your well-informed response is a breath of fresh air when compared to this dog doodoo of a video. If only every Westerner was willing to take the time and effort required to research the reality of India instead of blindly trusting whatever propaganda nonsense is shoved down their ignorant throats by an equally ignorant mainstream media.
I was thinking the same thing, if a household is able to get by on 1 income - surely that’s not the worst thing considering many people in western countries long for the days when that was possible.
In terms of society and family life, having someone at home to raise kids is hugely beneficial for the kids and has been the standard for most of human history, the main ones to benefit from the 2 income household are are huge corporations that are able to massively increase supply of labour while essentially getting away with paying them less forcing couples to both work in order to survive
@@ABBZ120the problem is that most households struggle to get by on one income. The reason why they do is because there aren't enough jobs for women. That's the whole point of the video
It's worth noting that if you go back a few hundred years to a predominantly rural setting then both parents working would be normal. Certain tasks might be gender specific, but ladies working the fields and crafting was the norm and still is the norm in many places.
The ability of an average household to have a modern life with all conveniences and only one person in formal employment was a relatively short period in human history.
It does seem like a very pleasant idea though and something we might aspire to, or at least have as a realistic option.
Limit mortgages to single income only to pull the value of residential land down?
@@ABBZ120it actually hasn't been the standard for most of history. In Africa women worked, got the water from miles away, etc. working with plants is very hard.
Brazil/South America had women doing their own major tasks as well.
You had kids at the tree, picked them up, and then kept working.
Great explanation. Manufacturing is picking up so fingers crossed. Services are good for uplifting the middle class but the number of jobs is not going to increase in services because there is literally no need of extra work force in services sector. Manufacturing sector is the only sector which can employ in mass.
True. But manufacturing is only increasing in specific states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. States which used to be manufacturing hubs like Punjab and West Bengal are seeing their manufacturing decreasing as they prioritize giving freebies to farmers and others over creating and nurturing businesses. Then there’s Bihar.
@@artman12manufacturing is only half the equation. Logistics is the other half. India will need an efficient transportation system to move vast quantities of material and goods from the ports to the factories and from the factories back to the ports. China had 40 years to perfect this and they're staying on top of it, which is why they're still highly competitive in mid-level manufacturing and they've broken into high level manufacturing, producing electric cars and now microchips.
@@eugeneng7064 The Indian government is now investing considerably to developing dedicated railway freight corridors and expressways to transport goods from the interior to the ports efficiently. But it’s less than China because India started developing these infrastructure projects only recently.
@@artman12 how are her ports doing? And the bureaucracy? İf India cannot build/develop good deep water ports and cut all the red tape/corruption all that effort is for naught
@@eugeneng7064our bureaucrats , mostly lower level ones are massively corrupt
Giving it Cultural reasons is really weak point.. It's like saying in a village children are not going to school because parents don't want them to be educated but main problem is there is no school in village in first place.
But cultural reasons are the most important
Not all societies need to have "employed" women
@@goyonman9655 but all society needs to and should make as much money as possible.
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I do not believe this at all
But you do
So that's where we disagree
@@ddeviddyoung money isn't everything but stable families are.
@@AmishKumar-lc7zs can't have stable family without money. Well you're indian, I don't expect commen sense from those who follow such regressive thoughts in name of culture, that's why India is poor.
3 out of 4 women are unemployed in India on paper but this isn't as black and white as it seems to be.
There are various aspects of it most importantly culture.
Indian society is extremely conservative, much more conservative that Western conservatism. Women working outside when men are already working and bringing money isn't considered something to be proud of in most Indian families. Most Indian women however do get equal education just like boys but most of them work only when they are unmarried and after marriage they are supposed to be housewives rather than working women.
In India, the poorest women are working and employed because their husbands alone can't feed their entire families. The middle class and lower middle class families are prosperous enough to sustain themselves without the income of female members and they are socially most conservative, so they restrict their women from working.
The upper middle class and rich families again have more female members working because they are also socially liberal.
In my own case my mother was a teacher before marriage, left the job after marriage and my birth and after 10 years again started working as a teacher in government school as I and my sister weren't small enough to be looked after by her.
The economic mobility of Indian women is thus mostly constrained by societal expectations, post marriage household chores and taking care of children.
@@user-op8fg3ny3jwhy are you typing bs in every comment?
They are "conservative" aka view women as non-equal.
@@brandon8900Under modern view of gender equality, you are absolutely right. I view this in the same way.
However I'm not justifying anything in my comment, I'm simply explaining why employment of women in India is so low.
@@brandon8900 May be, but that is not the narrative. Many women also don't work because they don't want to work. Their is not enough jobs for women.
@@user-op8fg3ny3j It's not healthy for the woman. Whether it leads to a better families is also debatable. If this system was super perfect, then india would have zero problems.
Ideally both parents should work but the family should be able to be maintained by one income.
Waiting for the “you’ve summoned 1 billion people 🤓🤓” comments
you've summoned 1 billion people 😂
Waiting for the "can we just take a moment to appreciate" comments
@Dr.Kay_R☝️🤓
@Dr.Kay_R but they have designated shitting streets in India
No problem. I want to marry Indian women, give them $500 a month allowance
As someone from another developing country (Malawi) myself, I found this really eye-opening
This was well researched and put together
Amazing video ❤❤
would be great to learn how India's huge & rapidly growing diaspora is effecting its economy
Well there's two kinds within the diaspora :
1. Migrants in Gulf Monarchies
2. Permanent Residents of Western Countries ( India doesn't allow dual citizenship)
Migrants in Gulf monarchies mostly work in blue collar jobs and send back some of their income as remittance which has a direct impact on the economy ...
Now permanent resident types can't do much unless they are businessmen and therefore they can invest in any sector of the Indian economy ( most investment is only In tech though for some reason)
very good analysis ... as an Indian, this helps us to identify more what we need to in terms of Women's upliftment
This isn't really about women's upliftment. This is about decades of failure at making Indian manufacturing a thing.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn I agree ... it highlights how we missed becoming a manufacturing hub. even Vietnam, Bangladesh and Malaysia were able to do it despite their smaller population. ItllThat failure was because of our lack of infrastructure like dedicated Freight Corridor and water supply. Also it was bad industrial support laws, restrictive labor laws and corrupt politicians.
This video doesn't account the fact that cost of living is very low in India. That's why it doesn't required much to sustain a family of 4.
An income of 800 dollars is enough to have middle class living in India.
That's almost 7.5 lpa. It's upper middle class in most cities barring some super expensive ones.
@CommandantNOVA you are quite Mistaken.
🤔 Maybe I should move to India then....
@@MarketsDriveTheWorld Yes you should. Earning and Saving in USD/ EURO and moving to cheaper countries with weaker currency is very common and well known.
@@paysmenot2624 my father makes like 60 LPA and I still feel poor in Mumbai
Really good vid. Thank you for the research❤. Learnt a lot about my own country and feel privileged and grateful.
Wow! This Channel be breaking it down!! 👊
What a shitty world where honor is tied to whatever your daughter is doing. Honor should be tied to how free your daughters are to do what they want or their level of autonomy. If your daughters are not safe, that is bad, but I guess it can be hard to make them safer, though it should be of high priority.
I am a woman in India and dont relate to this view as I live in cities and not villages
Most women don't relate to what you said
@@vatsalasaxena8430 your experience is anecdotal and not reflective of what most women face in this country.
@xynyde0 It is too tiring to explain things already known however if you search about major cities in India like Mumbai and especially places in the South of India, you'll find that they are way safer than rural places and less-developed places. I am talking about demographics not only my experience. Because that is not being talked about in this comment section
So basically, to sum it up, there are two reasons: because India’s government regulations, companies tend to be small in size, leading to fewer jobs for women to occupy; and also because of the quick rise of China and its effects becoming a global economic transformation, India’s manufacturing economical opportunities were largely oppressed and people had no choice but to develop other jobs that aren’t suitable to women.
I do feel that women should also get into job market in all sectors but my question is; Do we have abundance of jobs for men? Job market has same size for both the genders but if we add women work force in the same job market then it will just fuel the unemployment... First we should focus on Job market rather than gender employment game!!
Unemployed women equals healthy birthrate replacement. Employed/collegue educated women equals low birthrate replacement. Its a catch 22
Another great video and thanks sir!!!
Come to think of it, when I went to India for that 1 year test production contract, I couldn't find female secretary which is very weird. I didn't look myself but I hire a dude to do it and he said it's very difficult. I just want business done, with or without Mr.Dickerson, so I didn't press on and get another dude to do the job for that one year. Strange how when you don't question it, such issue can fly under the redar, no matter how close you are.
India is not a safe place for women to work.
Perfect!!!
Old India, slowly sloughing off the last few centuries. China was shocked into action.
huh?? in the last few centuries India was destroyed repeatedly by European colonizers. There's no comparison
Another fun obstacle to getting a job is that a lot of places require people to give a bribe to even get hired
In hiring, i don't think there is a bribe, I mean it depends on your skills
@@pranavingale6850 bribing is a necessity to get an Indian government job
@@Keylevitation umm......in some cases....yeah.....i mean low level jobs like train tc and all......but not in high level jobs like petroleum engineer in state owned oil company
As an indian watching Your video I want to thank you for making this detailed case study....our country is growing at a fast pace but we need to increase to participication of women's not only in services but also in labour sector
Fantastic video thank you
Quite an optimistic view that you think the Indian govt planned its jump from an agriculture-based economy to a service-based economy.
Most realistically, they pretty much left the job sector to figure itself out and this is the result
As of Sept 2024, India unemployment for 25 or under is 40%, highest ever
that is sad 😂
The question is, how the fuck are so many people surviving without a job