Statement Early stage startups and small businesses in India have been shying away from hiring women...........

Logical Reasoning(SBI-PO) Statement - Courses of Action

Direction: In the question below, are given a statement followed by three courses of actions numbered I, II and III. On the basis of the information given, you have to assume everything in the statement to be true, and then decide which of the suggested courses of action logically follow(s) for pursuing.

Statement: Early-stage startups and small businesses in India have been shying away from hiring women after the government increased paid maternity leave in 2017, a survey shows. An amendment to the Maternity Benefits Act, passed in March 2017, raised paid maternity leave for women from 12 weeks to 26 weeks, benefitting 1.8 million women workers in the organised sector. The law applies to all establishments employing 10 or more people, and the entitlement applies only up to the first two children. LocalCircles, a citizens’ forum which surveyed 9,000 early-stage startups and small businesses, said hiring women who will avail of maternity benefits, which includes six months’ paid leave, has turned into a significant economic burden for startups that typically run on shoestring budgets. In the survey, 46% of the respondents said they hired mostly male employees in the last 18 months.

Courses of action:

I. While the government late last year said it will refund employers for seven weeks of pay given to an employee on maternity leave, startups and SMEs said it isn’t enough to cover the cost. As per the survey, 65% of the respondents said that even 19 weeks of pay would be too much for them to absorb.

II. According to the latest Monster Salary Index report, women still earn 19% less than their male counterparts in India. This gap has decreased by 1% from last year. Further, the report adds that women-led businesses received only 65% of the funding secured by male-led ones.

III. However, not all small startups agree that maternity benefits need to be scrapped. Rohan Shravan, founder of AI startup Inkers Technology said that among his team of nine employees, three are women, and unlike many firms of its size, they even offer extended paternity leave benefit to employees.

All follow

Neither I nor III follows

Only I follows

None follows

Only III follows

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Explanation:

The correct answer is option 4, i.e. None follows.
A course of action is something that needs to be done considering the present scenario in mind.
From the statement, it is evident that it’s about Maternity leave granted to the women employees as per the law and how the companies have been avoiding hiring female staff in order to avoid maternity leaves to them. Thus, a suitable course of action must be in the sense to avoid this injustice being done to women.
Course of action (I) can be rejected as it presents a course of action that is already stated by the government (past tensE.. Moreover, it further presents the problem and does not present the solution to it and is thus rejected.
Course of action (II) is rejected as it simply presents facts and does not suggest any course of action.
Based on similar grounds, course of action (III) is also rejected. Course of action (III) also shows the views of the startups and the stats but it fails to provide a solution to the problem.
Thus, all the courses of actions are irrelevant and can be rejected.