A Study on Challenges Facing by Women Workers in Indian Design Export Pvt. Ltd. (IDEPL) at Kolar
Author : Prakash GM
Abstract :
Since independence Indian society is essentially a male dominated society, in which the ascribed status of women has been very low. Illiteracy and generally backwardness of women are still continuing. Education and health of women are neglected to some extent. The textile industry face many problems relate to inadequate infrastructure, obsolete machinery, lack of trained manpower, decentralized and fragmented nature of the industry, besides the inflexible labour laws. Based on the challenges and problems the researchers had taken up the study to give suggestions to new entrepreneurs in that field. It stated that challenges facing by women workers in Indian design export consists of those working in the unorganized enterprises or households, excluding regular workers with social security benefits, and the workers in the formal sector without any employment and social security benefits provided by the employers. The unorganized sector consists of handlooms, power looms and handicrafts. The major sub segments of the textile industry are cotton, blended, silk, wool and manmade. The unorganized women workers are not getting any service benefits such as the social security benefits like life and medical insurance, health care, maternity benefits, and old age pension, PF, ESI etc.
Keywords :
Women, textile unorganized sector, issues and challenges.
