Abstract

Abstract: Women’s exploitation isan age old cultural phenomenon of the Indian society.  The objective of the study is to examinegender inequality in terms of category of employment and average earnings overthe years from the National Sample Survey of reported data of 50th - 66throunds. The study covers all the 28 states and 7 union territories of India.Despite the same educational background, the average wage earnings gapcontinued to exist despite such practises women continued to take part in thelabour market whether exploited or not which is very much noteworthy especiallythe rural females where system was expected to be very much unorganised fromall backgrounds. Though the increased in percentages performance were muchhigher wherein some cases it was more than that of their male counterparts fromall the findings but in terms of per 1000 increased and salary earnings inabsolute numbers it was still very much less when compared to malecounterparts, thus indicating that gender discrimination is practised very muchin the labour market due to socio-economic related tradeoffs.

Keywords: Labour, salariedemployee, casual, wage.