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Mind the Gap
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- Oxfam India has released a report titled ‘Mind The Gap - State of Employment in India’.
- According to the report, lack of quality jobs and increasing wage disparity are key markers of inequality in the Indian labour market.
- The report highlights gender inequality in salary and wages paid and how women are systematically underpaid irrespective of the category of their employment.
- It states, based on NSSO Survey (National Sample Survey Organisation) data, on an average, women are paid 34 per cent less than similarly qualified male workers for performing the same tasks.
OXFAM
- Oxford Committee for Famine Relief – OxFam was a charitable organization founded in 1942 for the alleviation of global poverty.
- Oxfam is celebrating its 67th year of humanitarian service in India.
- In 1951, Oxfam Great Britain launched its first full scale humanitarian response to the Bihar famine.
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