BANGALORE: Though 73 percent of working women feel insecure during night shifts in all major hubs of economic activities across the country, it has not deterred them from taking up such jobs.The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASSOCHAM) Social Development Foundation, in its report, stated that only 42 percent of the respondents perceived better pay package to be a major attraction for working in night shifts. The rest responded that there was no other choice. “Women workers in mills have to work in night shift because the expensive machinery used in these factories is highly efficient; productivity and profitability are greatly increased by day and night utilisation of the machinery,” said a majority of respondents.Demand by nature of job was the major reason for working in night shifts among all the cities surveyed, it said adding that it was high in Bangalore (98 percent) followed by Pune, 95 in Ludhiana, 93 in Mumbai, 92 in Delhi, 88 in Hyderabad and 82 percent in Chennai. More than 2,000 women were randomly interviewed in 10 major cities of Delhi-NCR, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahemdabad, Lucknow, Jaipur and Dehradun.
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