156 Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention no. Minimum Age, ratified by Nepal in 1997 Employment of Women Convention no. 171 Night Work Occupational Safety and Health Convention no. 127 Maximum Weight Convention no. In many countries, there is a clear division of tasks between the two sexes.
Men have productive tasks and women reproductive tasks.
This means, in short, that women give birth to children, educate them and do the complete housekeeping. The responsibility of men is to earn an income and to fulfil the material needs of their families. However, besides their reproductive tasks, women are also involved in so-called economically productive activities. Unfortunately, women are often almost invisible in labour statistics, this is also the case in Nepal. The question is whether this is because they are not economically active, or because they are not recognised as such.