Although in India, women are working in every field, there are women even today, who do not step out of the house even once in a day. This has been revealed by the study ‘Gender gap in mobility outside home in urban India’ published in Science Direct's journal Travel Behavior and Society. According to this, almost half of the women in urban India do not step out of the house even once a day.
The study was done on 84,207 women and 88,914 men, where it was revealed that only 47% women step out of their houses on a normal day, that is, 53% women are the ones who don’t. Whereas 87% of men go out of house on a normal day.
The study also revealed that women generally need a solid reason to go out whereas, men do not need reasons as such. It was observed that 81% of women who are students or are working, step out of their house once a day. On the other hand, only 30% of stay at home women go out of the house and 70% of those women do not go out of the house even once a day.
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