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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Highest gender gap in employment rates in India: survey -Vidhi Choudhary

Highest gender gap in employment rates in India: survey -Vidhi Choudhary

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published Published on Sep 30, 2013   modified Modified on Sep 30, 2013
-Live Mint


Payroll-to-population employment rate for women in South Asia 10% against 36% for men

New Delhi: India and other South Asian nations have the world's highest gender gap in employment rates, according to a survey by Gallup Inc., a US research and consulting services company.

The payroll-to-population (P2P) employment rate for women in South Asia is 10% as compared to 36% for men, a deficit of 26 points.

Globally, the deficit in the employment rates between men and women stands at 16 points; for men the employment rate is 34% in comparison to 18% for women as per the survey conducted across 140 countries all over the world.

The Gallup survey echoes a report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) for 2012 on women's employment following the global economic crisis, which found that South Asia's "already massive gender gap in the employment-to-population ratio" has increased.

ILO says the increase was accompanied by a "fall of 3 million female jobs, caused both by weakening female-dominated sectors like garments and by demographic change."

Women's deficit in good jobs is smallest, at seven points, in Sub-Saharan Africa, but employment rates in this region are also among the lowest in the world for both women and men at 8% and 15% respectively.

Employment rates are the highest for men and women in Northern America at 52% and 33% and non-European Union parts of Europe (Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Northern Cyprus) with 51% and 29% respectively. However, gender gaps in these regions are also wide at 19 points and 22 points respectively.

According to some experts, the Indian gender gap in employment is part of a fast-evolving scenario.

"This data could have been much worse 10 years ago. I think it is correcting itself now," said Kris Lakshmikanth, founder chief executive and managing director, The Head Hunters India Pvt. Ltd, an executive search firm.

"Traditionally India has been a country where the man of the house gets the money and the wife takes care of the house. The influx of women in employment has increased primarily because of the IT and BPO industries, there you will find the men and women ratio at 60:40. Even the service sector has started employing more and more women now," said Lakshmikanth.

"Nowadays clients are extremely keen on diversity, hiring people from different backgrounds, especially women," said Mohit Mohan, director, Gilbert Tweed Associates, a leading executive search firm. "Corporates truly believe that women bring in a different perspective and skill-set to the table. The idea is not to do this for quota reasons or meet other criteria."


Live Mint, 27 September, 2013, http://www.livemint.com/Politics/zaf7H23VwRhcmFCs0uYsQP/Highest-gender-gap-in-employment-rates-in-India-survey.html


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