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1581 What Happen when Women Change Job due to Child Caring

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Reena Tadee , Kanyapat Suttikasem
1 Institute for Population and Social Research at Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. Department of
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Geography and Regional Research at University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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13. Others (Education, Wellbeing and Happiness etc.)

Abstract

Child bearing and caring tend to have more impact on women compared to men. In the past, women were not
expected to work outside of home. But nowadays women become more engaged in education and workforce, they
have to face the dilemma between caring for a child and career. Many have to go through career changes. We
analyzed more than 500 messages from a discussion board and Facebook pages in Thailand to find out what
happen to their career when women have children. We also conducted in-depth interviews with 23 women who
have children and found that while some women left their job to become full time mothers, others change their
jobs (work places, different career, become a freelance) and some change their work hours (flexible hours, part-
time staff, work from home). These changes directly impact their income which eventually affect them socially and
psychologically. It cannot be denied that child bearing/caring affect women’s career growth. Having to balance
between time spent on working and child caring and with their decreasing income, women feel less financially
independent and more socially isolated. This combination often make women become more emotional vulnerable
and could worsen relationship within the family.

797 Dynamics of Work and Job Seeking Behavior of Slum Dwelling Women of
Mumbai City

Varsha Nagargoje

International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India

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13. Others (Education, Wellbeing and Happiness etc.)

Abstract

This paper investigates various work dynamics among women in the Mumbai slums and their job-seeking behavior
for future perspective, through a primary survey based on 160 samples of women aged between 15-39 years from
Mumbai slums. Although more than half of the women were part-time or temporary or contract basis workers, 83
percent of women work more than 15 hours per week compared to just 16 percent of women who work less than
14 hours. More than 80 percent of women were wage or salaried workers and a similar proportion was worked as
informal workers. The mean monthly income of the currently working women was ₹ 3556 ($ 50.11) which is a very
meager amount to manage livelihood in a city like Mumbai. The proportion of job search was higher among
currently not working women as compared to their counterparts. Almost half of the women given preferences to a
part-time job and 67 percent of women preferred job location in the same premises where they were residing or in
the areas nearby their residence. The mean monthly income expected by job seekers was ₹ 8405($ 118.45) which

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