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• Direct labor market • Entry hurdles: Women also
discrimination: People with the confront entry barriers to the
same talent, education, and work workforce, which impacts their
experience are treated differently possibilities for promotion and
solely due to their gender, i.e., they salary growth.
are paid differently for the same • Parenting obligations and
work, and the qualifications for the requirements: These factors may
same pay level are different for each result in gender discrimination
gender. in the workplace and, ultimately,
• Occupational discrimination: GPG. Women frequently choose
Women are disproportionately part-time employment or even
chosen for low-paying positions career breaks to balance parental
like secretaries, teachers, nurses, and responsibilities.
other healthcare professionals, and • Returning to the office after a
even in these positions, they are paid career break: Women are frequently
less than men (IWPR 2009). offered lesser salaries than their

• Undervaluation of women’s male coworkers, and there is no
labor: Given that family, caregiving assurance that they will be awarded
is generally considered a woman’s an equivalent job in the company
primary responsibility, it is following their maternity leave
reasonable to offer women similar (World Bank, 2016).
employment opportunities as men • Women without children: Since
in the labor market (UNIFEM, employers view these women as
2005). In India, women commit potential mothers, they are not the
three times as much to unpaid care employers’ first option (Goldberg &
work as men (ILO, 2016). Hill, 2007).
• The selection effect: Women • Single women are frequently
frequently do not have a choice in turned down for jobs because they
specific employment (occupations), tend to leave their jobs after getting
but companies typically favor male married, move in with their partner,
employees over female employees. or even take time off for weddings.
(2004) Pertersen and Snartland.
• Social Fabric: Negative workplace
• Lack of negotiating power in the relationships with coworkers can
labor market due to the division of result in less productivity. In Indian
labor based on gender forces women society, some male employees
to accept low-paying positions. could get resentful if they have to

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