In our country we don't know about the exact number of house wives. The present population of our country is about one hundred and twenty crore. If on an average a family consists of four members then total families and number of house wives works out to thirty crore . Out of thirty crore house wives if it is presumed five crore are engaged in different works there will be twenty five crore of house wives.
These huge number of house wives are divided in both city-town and villages.
The house wives of both villages and township - all work from early mornings to late night. Those who live in villages apart from family work they also work in the fields pertaining to Agricultural works.
Those who live in city they also perform outside work like they take their children to schools , they go to Bank market and sometimes if necessary visit Doctors .
From the above it would be evident that twenty five crore of people on average work from seventeen hours to eighteen hours without any remuneration.
It is unbelievable and most disappointing that such huge number of house wives work through out the day and deploy their physical and mental strength for the cause of their families. In return they don't get any remuneration.
In villages most of the housewives apart from their family work engage themselves in cultivation work as well and thus produce vegetables , fruits etc.
From the above it can be said that this huge manpower creates wealth and also render valuable services. But unfortunately in no case their contributions are recognised.
If it is presumed on an average their Monthly salary should be Rs.10,000 , then the total income would be 25,00,00,000 * Rs.10,000 * 12 months .
If I am not wrong the same should be the income of huge number of people and the same would have been circulated in the market and thus our national economy possibly would have been benefitted like anything.
It is my question and I want to know whether their contributions should be taken into consideration while calculating our GDP.Incidentally I am not a student of Economics. It has just come to my mind and I want to know to this effect .
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