> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: [[Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay]] > Reference:: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, The Awakening of Indian Women, Madras: Everyman’s Press, pp 25, 32, 1939. > Date:: 1939 > Tags:: #warp #India > WeftLinks:: [[Equity value of craft]] > Claim:: > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Women should be paid the same wage as men. ### Highlights In a pamphlet published in 1939, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, founder of the All India Women’s Conference (AIWC) in 1927, was very aware of the pervasive gender-biased injustice in conceptions of work, labour, and wages that women were contending within colonial economies of the Global South: >‘everywhere women are paid less - in some places about half of men’s wages. This unjust system is part of the tradition handed down under masculine dominance. Masculine standard is the accepted one and according to that measure wages are fixed. That a woman worker spends proportionately as much energy and labour and is entitled to the same wage is lost sight of.’ The model of co-operative organization introduced by Kamaladevi for crafts in India during the pre-independence years was to rectify this bias.