Women’s labour force participation has to be increased to unleash the potential of women in the country. Examine (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
· India’s female labour force participation rate is at an alarmingly low level, compared not just with peer economies but also with some least developed countries.
· From 30-32% in the first decade-and-a-half of liberalisation, it has seen a sharp downward turn to 25.1% in 2020-2021, covering the first and second waves of the pandemic, according to the latest Periodic Labour Force Survey data.
· India’s first Time-Use Survey showed, just 20.6% of women aged 15-59 were involved in paid work, while 94% participated in unpaid work at home and elsewhere.
· To encourage women’s participation in the workforce, many fundamentals still need fixing, though there has been some progress under these heads over the past couple of decades.
· To begin with, nutrition gaps need to be addressed, as the continued prevalence of significant levels of anaemia among women in India shows.
· Women in India also are more likely to have poorer health than their peers in some comparator economies, as data from the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report 2022, shows.
· This is imperative as estimates suggest that closing the employment gap between men and women could expand the gross domestic product by close to a third by 2050.
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Carol 2 years
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