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Latest News :- According to the International Labor Organization (ILO) report, Indian young female workers work an average of 55 hours per week, the highest in the world. Recently, a touching letter written by the mother of Anna Sebastian, a 26-year-old employee of Ernst & Young (EY), a Pune-based international consulting firm, who died due to workload, attracted attention. In the letter, Anna's mother said, “My daughter has studied well in school and college. He also passed the CA examination with distinction. This is his first assignment. He started work with enthusiasm. He worked tirelessly. He completed the tasks assigned to him.
However, working long hours took its toll on him physically and mentally. She joined the service in March and died in July. My daughter doesn't know that she will sacrifice her life for work. Especially at the end of the shift, his manager used to give him some work. Hence the need to work overtime arose. Had to work even on weekends.
We left the job. But his eagerness to learn stopped him. Now he is not there. No one from the company where she worked attended her funeral. I am writing this letter so that no employee of this company dies like my daughter. The family of any employee like us should not be affected. His warm words touched hearts. And the mother's moving letter has sparked new debate on a topic that had never been discussed before. It has also sparked a healthy debate about the impact of increasing workload on young women, especially in the patriarchal Indian working environment.
According to the International Labor Organization (ILO) report, in this context, Indian young female employees work an average of 55 hours per week, which is the highest in the world. According to International Labor Organization data, Indian women work longer hours in jobs like Anna's globally. It has also been observed that especially young female employees work longer hours.
An average of 56.5 hours! In 2023, women working in the IT and media sectors in India worked an average of 56.5 hours per week. Assuming a 5-day work week, they worked an average of 11 hours per day, and assuming a 6-day work week, they worked an average of 9 hours per day. Women in science and technology jobs in India work an average of 53.2 hours per week. The ILO reports that a teacher in India works an average of 46 hours per week.
Direct relationship between age and working hours.. The working hours of female workers in India depend on their age. Working hours increase with age. Women up to 24 years of age work an average of 57 hours per week in the IT/media industry. In other sectors people of the same age group work 55 hours. If we compare this average with global figures, India has the highest working hours. In comparison, IT/media women in Germany work 32 hours a week, while women in Russia work 40 hours a week, according to the report.
Patriarchal work environment! The report notes that Indian women not only work the longest hours globally, but also work in the world's most patriarchal work environments. In India, 8.5 percent women work in science and technology and 20 percent in information technology and telecommunications. Statistics show that this difference is quite big in India also. Labor welfare experts say the ILO report and the letter written by Anna's mother indicate the need for a new definition of women's working hours in India.
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