Issues And Challenges Faced By Domestic Female Workers In Chennai

Abstract

The important challenges facing Chennai's informal domestic workers—such as low pay and unfavorable working conditions—are highlighted in this report. In India, private families employed about 4.75 million domestic workers, according to the National Sample Survey Organization. Approximately 3.05 million of these people are impoverished urban women. It is shown that women are increasingly choosing to work in India in home roles. A field study was conducted in 2022–2023 to gather information about the wages and work-related details of female domestic workers. Data were gathered from 173 respondents—all female domestic workers—who were chosen using a simple random sample and interviewed in semi-structured interview formats in eleven different parts of Chennai. In relation to their compensation, the working hours are quite long. Because domestic workers in the study area are paid on an hourly, weekly, and monthly basis, the domestic employer desired to finish maximum work in the shortest period. The majority of survey respondents (33.87 percentage) between Rs 2500 and Rs 3000 a month or less. Additionally, this study discovered that occupational health problems affect nearly all sample respondents.