PLIGHT OF WOMEN DOMESTIC WORKERS IN INDIA

Abstract

Domestic work, the labour that goes into running a house, has been probably the most unrecognised labour all over the world, throughout the history. In last few decades there has been a tremendous growth in the demand for domestic workers which has led to the trafficking and other forms of exploitation of millions of men, women and children of the both sexes and to meet this growing demand there has been a spurt of thousands of placement agencies providing domestic workers in metro-towns of many states, who are exploited in various ways as well as trafficked and remain outside the purview of any legislative control. Absence of any legal protection and any special law which led to severe exploitation men, women and children which include depriving domestic workers from their entire salary average more than 16-18 hours of work per day, absence of proper food and living/sleeping condition, forced and total cut off from their family members, bounded labour, sexual exploitation by agent during transit, at the office of agency and at the work place and in houses of employers.