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Rural women sacrifice sleep for government training
A woman told The Hindu she woke up earlier and slept later to attend a government skill training programme, without any help at home. Her experience reflects a common pattern across rural…
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A woman told The Hindu she woke up earlier and slept later to attend a government skill training programme, without any help at home. Her experience reflects a common pattern across rural India where women's unpaid care work leaves no free time for such opportunities. Programmes like Namo Drone Didi and livelihood missions assume women have spare time, but they often borrow it from sleep.
Economists call this unpaid care work, but planning documents do not account for it. Women walk in late to sessions because morning chores do not wait. Trainings clash with cooking, childcare, and animal feeding. While the programmes are well-intentioned, they fail to consider that time must be freed first through support like childcare or adjusted schedules, says The Hindu.
The Indian Opinion
The standard narrative of women's empowerment often highlights shiny drone controllers but ignores the invisible cost. It is easy to applaud training targets while forgetting that a woman's day already has zero slack. The real test is not how many women attend, but whether any programme shifts household responsibilities or adjusts timings to match their reality. Until budgets include childcare or training hours avoid morning cooking, success stories remain incomplete.
Source: thehindu.com
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