A study on the Distribution of Male and Female Employees in the Scheduled Commercial Banks of India

Abstract

This paper seeks to understand the employment picture of male and female employee in the scheduled commercial banks of India. it is tried to see lo what extent banks in India are maintaining the ratio of male and female employees in the banking business. In the study years from period 2000 lo 2012 it is found that participation of women as an employee in the banking business in India is very low as compared to the male counterpart. In the entire period of study female employee percentage in the total employee is 13.69 p er cent to 18.69 percent. The given study also shows that male employee officer's figure represents a very high average figure of around 90 per cent and the female employee officer's figure represents an average of around 10 percent. It is also observed foreign banks and the private group of banks have better scenario in the composition of female and male officers than the other nationalized groups banks in the country. At the current scenario there is a huge gap of employment inequality between male and female population in the scheduled commercial banks of India ..