To Study Or Not To Study……That Is The Question.

The more educated a woman, the higher the salary discrimination she faces at work.That is the conclusion of the report based on the survey prepared by Paycheck India, a research initiative of IIM-A, supported by non-profit organization Wage Indicator Foundation and University of Amsterdam. The all-India survey is based on 21,552 respondents over a period of 7.5 years.

While women with no formal education earn more than their male counterparts, with an increase in educational qualification, the situation reverses. So, women with basic education like advanced certificates or diplomas earn 10% less than equally qualified men, but the wage gap shoots up to over 40% in cases where women have master’s degrees.

The main reason for this is that in India, there is a general perception that a woman’s primary responsibility is unpaid care work, like looking after children and family, and this perception channels them into similar work areas in the labour market, where they are paid handsomely for it. For instance, with no formal education, the average annual income of women surveyed is Rs 1.41 lakh while for men it is 1.26 lakh, indicating women are 11.99% ahead. Read more of this post