The face of Dilkumari Gaha of Bagnaskali Rural Municipality-9, Chappani was pale on Wednesday. I did not know that May 1 is Labor Day. Why is he called to the rural municipality? for what It remained in mind. "I was called to the municipality," she said.

But he got the opportunity to preside over the Labor Day program. She told the public representative, 'Men and women should pay the same amount of money for doing the same job.' She asked the rural municipality to provide unequal wages for the same work, determination of the same wage rate, determination of working hours, health insurance for women working in the informal sector, and accident insurance. Not only this, she emphasized on giving opportunities to the working women of the village in the village plan or the Prime Minister's self-employment program. "In the opportunity given by the village council, we should publish information in the village so that everyone can get information," she said. Women workers working in rural areas have been suffering from unequal wages for the same work compared to men for years. The survey conducted with 743 daily wage laborers from nine wards of Bagnaskali Rural Municipality has also confirmed that there is unequal wages between women and men for the same work.

The survey conducted by Bagnaskali rural municipality and the non-governmental organization Social Resource Development Center Nepal in 9 wards of the municipality revealed that there is a difference in daily wages between women and men working in rural areas who harvest rice, thresh corn, throw manure, work with stones and clay, and work in fields. Workers Bagnaskali Village Administrator-2, Pokharathok's Lila Rana Magar said that women face problems such as not getting daily work, discrimination in wages even if they get a job, and having to work for more hours than the prescribed time.

According to her, the municipality should start a campaign to maintain equal wages for equal work. "It would be easier for us if the whole municipality were to set the same wage," she said, "Let the municipality do what it needs to do."  

Women can work as much as men, but the problem is that women are not allowed to do hard work. There is also a problem of making half the difference in wages. Bhawisara Kumal of Bagnaskali rural municipality-1 said that the municipality should be able to make women skilled, transform them into labor, and implement programs and budgets. 

There is also a difference in the wage rates of female workers. While women get 300 to 600 daily wages, men get 500 to 1000. But surveyor Sapna Vick said that there is a problem that there is a need for labor in the government schemes in the village, insurance cannot be managed even if there is an injury while working, wages have not increased even though the prices have increased. "Such issues should be addressed by the municipality," she said. 

Sumina Gaha of Yuva Sangam in Bagnas said that although men have given equal work to women, they have not received equal wages due to the devaluing of women's work. "When we went to the village tol during the survey, we found the condition of working women to be very miserable," she said. She said that there have been complaints that in some villages, one man and two women have to go to work. "It was found that the municipality should provide food security to some families," she said. She admitted that it was not possible to work only for women workers as the target group had to be mobilized properly. "Although there is no separate program for working women, we will give importance to it in the future," she said. Badrinath Lamsal, the chief administrative officer of the rural municipality, said that the rural municipality will make a plan to manage the workers by teaching them to fish instead of giving them fish.