ANALYISING THE GENDER PAY GAP IN INDIA: EXPLORING CURRENT LEGAL EFFICACY

For centuries, women in India have endured atrocities and injustices in the exercise of social and patriarchal norms. After the independence, legislative laws were enacted to safeguard women's rights and bring them into the mainstream of society. Discrimination at workplaces, particularly concerning pay discrepancies between genders, has been outlawed in articles 14, 16, and 39 under the Indian Constitution, and the equal pay for equal work principle has been followed in legislative measures aiming to improve the equal representation of women in the economic sector too.