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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | More women in the labour force must not lead us to complacency -Sona Mitra and Bidisha Mondal

More women in the labour force must not lead us to complacency -Sona Mitra and Bidisha Mondal

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published Published on Aug 16, 2022   modified Modified on Aug 18, 2022

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It’s a pandemic-related rise and we still need an ecosystem of enablers that can lighten the domestic commitments of women

The female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) in India has witnessed an increase, as per the Periodic Labour Force Survey released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) covering June 2020 to July 2021. The figure in the period stands at 25.1%, far better than the 17% in 2017-18. While this is welcome, the numbers continue to remain dismal and way below the global FLFPR of approximately 48%.

Even before the pandemic struck, the reasons for such low FLFPRs in India were widely discussed. In the post-pandemic situation, the plight of women workers and those seeking jobs apparently worsened. The 2020-21 figures show that the increase in FLFPR was mostly driven by a rise in rural FLFPR that went up from 18% in 2017-18 to about 28% in 2020-21. The increases were mostly in agriculture, where the share of rural women workers increased to 75% in this period. This is higher than the average of 70% in the last few years. In fact, the share of women workers engaged in agricultural activities had been in secular decline from the 1990s. The reversal in trend indicates over-crowding and under-employment in a sector whose rate of returns has been dropping for several decades.

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Livemint.com, 16 August, 2022, https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/more-women-in-the-labour-force-must-not-lead-us-to-complacency-11660580645162.html


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