Let’s step up strategic efforts to mobilize India’s labour potential
2 years, 2 months ago

Let’s step up strategic efforts to mobilize India’s labour potential

Live Mint  

For years, India’s demographic transition has garnered significant attention. As per the National Sample Survey Office’s Periodic Labour Force Survey 2020-21, India’s labour force participation rate for all age groups is around 41.6%. With our working-age population projected to grow by roughly 9.7 million per year from 2021 to 2031 and 4.2 million annually in the 2031-41 period, there is immense potential to mobilize the expanding working-age population and elevate labour force participation. The ‘output per potential worker’ aspect indicates a broader notion of productivity that captures the productivity of the employed as well as the ability of a country to mobilize its working-age population. As per the Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2020-21, the all-India female labour force participation rate in usual status has increased to 25.1%, as compared to 22.8% a year ago.

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Women’s participation in labour force surged from FY18 to FY23: PM’s economic advisory council
1 week, 6 days ago

Women’s participation in labour force surged from FY18 to FY23: PM’s economic advisory council

Live Mint  

New Delhi: India's female labour force participation rate rose significantly from 2017-18 to 2022-23, especially in rural areas, according to a new working paper by the economic advisory council to the prime minister. The paper, which analysed data from the government’s Periodic Labour Force Surveys, said India's overall rural female LFPR surged from 24.6% to 41.5%, while urban female LFPR …

India witnesses drastic increase in female labour force participation rate under Modi govt since 2017
2 weeks, 3 days ago

India witnesses drastic increase in female labour force participation rate under Modi govt since 2017

Op India  

In a major development, the female labour force participation rate has witnessed a drastic improvement in the past 5 years. According to a report published by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, rural female LFPR has increased from 24.6% to 41.5% between 2017-2018 and 2022-2023 at the national level. Screengrab of the report by the Economic Advisory Council …

Significant rise in women workforce participation: Minister Karandlaje
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Significant rise in women workforce participation: Minister Karandlaje

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The participation of women in the country's workforce has seen a significant increase over the past six years, Shobha Karandlaje, Union minister of state for labour & employment, said on Thursday. Responding to a question from Rajya Sabha member of parliament Sagarika Ghose on women employment, Karandlaje told the upper house that the worker population ratio, or the …

Empowering Women: The Key to Boosting India's GDP
2 months ago

Empowering Women: The Key to Boosting India's GDP

Hindustan Times  

Achieving gender equality in India could boost the GDP by $700 billion by 2025, representing a 16% increase over the current contribution. Women contribute about 18% of India’s GDP, significantly below the global average of 37%. This indicates a vast potential for growth if gender gaps in employment are addressed.

Economic Survey 2023-24: Economy needs to generate nearly 78.51 lakh jobs annually in the non-farm sector
5 months ago

Economic Survey 2023-24: Economy needs to generate nearly 78.51 lakh jobs annually in the non-farm sector

The Hindu  

India's workforce is nearly 56.5 crore, with more than 45% employed in agriculture, 11.4% in manufacturing, 28.9% in services, and 13.0% in construction, highlights the Economic Survey 2023-24 released by the finance ministry on July 22. It stated, “The female labour force participation rate has been rising for six years, from 23.3% in 2017-18 to 37% in 2022-23, driven mainly …

Hand rocking the cradle can change India
5 months ago

Hand rocking the cradle can change India

New Indian Express  

There was a recent report that a multinational firm in Chennai had taken a policy decision against recruiting married women. With constitutional guarantees of equality in education and employment, women in India have achieved success in educational and professional fields and broken the glass ceiling when provided with opportunities. However, a large proportion of women do encounter subtle biases when …

Labour ministry rebuts Citigroup's research report on employment in India
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Labour ministry rebuts Citigroup's research report on employment in India

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The labour ministry on Monday rebutted a recent report by Citigroup which forecast that India will struggle to create sufficient employment opportunities even with a 7 per cent growth rate. The ministry in a statement said the report "fails to account for the comprehensive and positive employment data available from official sources such as Periodic Labour Force Survey …

World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report 2024: 134 Years to Parity, India Ranks 129th
6 months ago

World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report 2024: 134 Years to Parity, India Ranks 129th

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 22, 2024 14:00 IST - 6 MINS READ The Global Gender Gap Report 2024, released by the World Economic Forum, presents a dire picture of the current state and evolution of gender parity across four indices: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. In its assessment of the four indices, the Global …

India's unique 'NEET' challenge and why addressing it should be new government's top priority
7 months, 2 weeks ago

India's unique 'NEET' challenge and why addressing it should be new government's top priority

New Indian Express  

India has a unique jobs problem. Of the 371 million-odd youth, a staggering 103.4 million, or, one in every three youngsters fall under this category as on 2022, according to the India Employment Report 2024 -- a joint report by the International Labour Organization and the Institute for Human Development -- released in March. India may well have the world's …

40% of campus hires in 2023 were women, highest participation in this region. Which sector hired most?
9 months ago

40% of campus hires in 2023 were women, highest participation in this region. Which sector hired most?

Hindustan Times  

One out of every three candidates participating in campus hiring in 2023 was a female, a report by HirePro, an AI-powered recruitment automation firm noted. In its report titled “State of female participation in campus hiring in India”, the firm said that women's participation in campus hiring exams stands at 34%. The highest proportion of women being recruited by organisations …

Despite Significant Jump in Female Literacy Rate, Participation of Women with Advanced Degrees in Workforce Low
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Despite Significant Jump in Female Literacy Rate, Participation of Women with Advanced Degrees in Workforce Low

News 18  

The celebration of International Women’s Day marks the achievement of women’s empowerment, although, despite the significant increase in the female literacy rate, the number of working women with higher advanced degrees in the country has not gone up much. However, the National Sample Survey Office reports that only 2.9 per cent of the total employed people aged 25 years and …

India starts survey to assess women participation in workforce
10 months, 3 weeks ago

India starts survey to assess women participation in workforce

The Hindu  

The Union Ministries of Labour & Employment and Women & Child Development have started a joint survey on increasing women participation in the workforce. The survey was announced by Union Minister Smriti Irani in New Delhi at a function “Women in the Workforce for Viksit Bharat” on Tuesday. Latest PLFS data The latest results of the Periodic Labour Force Survey, …

The big threat to India’s demographic dividend
1 year ago

The big threat to India’s demographic dividend

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: In a short press release, dated 13 October, the Ministry of Women and Child Development announced that the Female Labour Force Participation Rate for 2022-23 had improved significantly over the previous year by 4.2 percentage points to 37%. Non-obvious insights View Full Image One of the most under-reported trends is that agriculture, which is the least productive undertaking, is …

How to maximise the advantage of India’s young population
1 year, 1 month ago

How to maximise the advantage of India’s young population

Hindustan Times  

At 13%, India is one of the top five nations contributing to the global labour force. Three states account for one-third of India's young working-age population : Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Bihar. The national wasted ratio for children under the age of five is 19.3%: Maharashtra has the highest value across major states of 25.6%, followed by Bihar at 23% …

India's unemployment rate hits 6-year low at 3.2% in latest government data
1 year, 2 months ago

India's unemployment rate hits 6-year low at 3.2% in latest government data

India TV News  

India's unemployment rate for individuals aged 15 and above has reached its lowest point in six years, registering at 3.2% during the period from July 2022 to June 2023, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2022-2023 released by the National Sample Survey Office. Rise in labour force participation The Labour Force Participation Rate in usual status for …

Zerodha’s Nithin Kamath shares insight on India’s low female labour force partic
1 year, 3 months ago

Zerodha’s Nithin Kamath shares insight on India’s low female labour force partic

Live Mint  

India's female labour force participation remains to be at an extremely low level in past one decade. Highlighting the opportunity of economic boost by employing India's female population, Zerodha's Nithin Kamath shared insight on India's female labour force participation. Our female labor force participation rate is among the lowest in the world.” He also underlined thed drastic fall in female …

DC Edit | Women's employment a steep challenge
1 year, 4 months ago

DC Edit | Women's employment a steep challenge

Deccan Chronicle  

India is the most populous nation on earth and more than half of its people, 52 per cent to be precise, are aged below 30. Given that India’s sex ratio is almost evenly poised, about 35 crore women, a number almost equal to the whole population of the United States, belong to this group. Pit this against the current data …

Can Britannia help women grab a bigger slice of India's job pie?
1 year, 9 months ago

Can Britannia help women grab a bigger slice of India's job pie?

Live Mint  

Britannia Industries Ltd claims it expects women to comprise half of its workforce by 2024. Any decision to increase the number of women in formal jobs is most welcome in India, where the female labour force participation rate has been falling since hitting a peak of 32% in 2005. The government’s data shows women’s labour force participation rate recently rose …

Why women get fewer jobs and earn lesser wages than men in India
1 year, 9 months ago

Why women get fewer jobs and earn lesser wages than men in India

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 27, 2023 12:39 IST Following the announcement by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in October last year of equal pay for all men and women Team India cricketers, the highest bid received by a cricketer in the inaugural Women’s Premier League is being celebrated as a watershed moment, not just in India but globally. …

India pushes for inclusion of women’s political representation at grassroots for WEF’s Gender Gap report
1 year, 10 months ago

India pushes for inclusion of women’s political representation at grassroots for WEF’s Gender Gap report

The Hindu  

India has successfully pushed for including women’s participation in local government bodies as a parameter for the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report where it has traditionally not fared well. “At the Women and Child Development Ministry, we are happy to share that the World Economic Forum has recognised the need to enumerate women’s participation in local government bodies …

Why India can’t afford women staying out of labour market
2 years, 1 month ago

Why India can’t afford women staying out of labour market

Live Mint  

Separately, Oxfam India’s India Discrimination Report 2022 revealed that wages are lower for women overwhelmingly because of discriminatory practices and only slightly due to lack of education and work experience. Besides, a significant number of qualified women were found unwilling to join the labour market due to ‘family responsibilities’, said the report. A recent Bloomberg Economics analysis estimated that though …

WFH: Can it add more Indian women to the workforce?
2 years, 3 months ago

WFH: Can it add more Indian women to the workforce?

Business Standard  

One of the five pledges that Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed Indians to adopt during his Independence Day speech was equality, specifically equality for women. Modi’s remarks assume significance as India has one of the world’s lowest female labour force participation rate, or LFPR. Having said that, the International Labour Organization, or ILO found that a significant proportion of women …

Why India's Laxmi Deserves More Shakti Through Equal Skill Training and Job Opportunities
2 years, 3 months ago

Why India's Laxmi Deserves More Shakti Through Equal Skill Training and Job Opportunities

News 18  

A recent report by consulting group McKinsey Global has highlighted the immense economic potential India is failing to realise, all because women face work-related hindrances. As per the Time Use Survey Report 2019, women in India spend only 61 minutes per day on employment and related activities, as opposed to 247 minutes spent on unpaid domestic services. According to 2019-2020 …

India at 75: The status of women in Independent India
2 years, 4 months ago

India at 75: The status of women in Independent India

The Hindu  

“The future beckons to us. The NFHS-5 report, which sampled a population of 7.24 lakh women and 1 lakh men in the age group of 15-49, found that the female literacy rate climbed to 72 per cent. 85 per cent of married women who earn cash say they make decisions alone or jointly with their husband on how their earnings …

May the Female Force Be With You: India Must Harness the Strength of Women in the Workforce
2 years, 7 months ago

May the Female Force Be With You: India Must Harness the Strength of Women in the Workforce

News 18  

Michelle Obama’s famous remarks that “No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens” deserves more attention than ever as we celebrate this International Labour Day. As a result of its strict adherence to social norms and patriarchal values, Indian society disproportionately places the …

How to ensure more women in the workforce
2 years, 7 months ago

How to ensure more women in the workforce

Hindustan Times  

India aims to become a $5-trillion economy by 2025. We focus on the fact that while the male labour force participation rates in the two countries are fairly similar, their female labour force participation rates are vastly different. The bulk of the research on female participation in the labour force has been on supply-side constraints: Family income and employment, marital …

Wrong to infer that half of working age population dropped out of labour force: Government
2 years, 7 months ago

Wrong to infer that half of working age population dropped out of labour force: Government

The Hindu  

Responding to a recent report of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, the Union Labour and Employment Ministry on Tuesday said it was “factually incorrect” to infer that half the working age population had dropped out of the labour force as a large proportion was pursuing education or engaged in unpaid activities such as caregiving. A substantial portion of working …

Only 40% Indians are employed or seeking work, shows data
2 years, 7 months ago

Only 40% Indians are employed or seeking work, shows data

The Hindu  

Only 40% of Indians of legal working age were employed or were looking for jobs in 2021-22. In comparison, the labour force participation rate was above 46% in 2016-17, according to data from The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. States-related analysis show that in 23 of the 24 States with data, the participation rate declined in March 2022 compared with …

Women@Work: Working Women Up Globally but Down in India. Is There a Way Out?
2 years, 9 months ago

Women@Work: Working Women Up Globally but Down in India. Is There a Way Out?

News 18  

My daughter who is in Grade 1 was in her Hindi online class and while doing the akshar श्र they were asked to draw a श्रमिक, without hesitation she drew me. If you look at data from the 1990s till date, across most countries, women’s participation in the labour force has increased. Our rate is significantly lower than Sri Lanka …

Shikha Mukerjee | India’s women must move on from hijabs, kitchens…
2 years, 9 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | India’s women must move on from hijabs, kitchens…

Deccan Chronicle  

The time has come to talk of many things, beyond dress codes, obedience and protection as the price that women must pay to be safe, beyond roles and responsibilities, to the idea of equality, justice, freedom for women. Women’s participation as workers has declined, though more and more girls complete school education and enter colleges and professional programmes. Fewer women …

A hazy picture on employment in India
2 years, 10 months ago

A hazy picture on employment in India

The Hindu  

The two important indicators of structural transformation in any economy are rates of growth and changes in the structural composition of output and the workforce. Also, the unemployment rate in the female labour force in rural areas is far lower than the male labour force, whereas the opposite holds true in urban areas. This is despite the fact that the …

What is keeping women from going to work?
3 years ago

What is keeping women from going to work?

Hindustan Times  

Though the Indian economy more than doubled in size and the number of working-age women grew by a quarter over the last two decades, the number of women in jobs declined by ten million. The paper also explores two key gender-oriented factors as potential reasons that can lead to high crime rates against women and girls: these are consumption of …

Why India needs a gender-positive recovery
3 years, 8 months ago

Why India needs a gender-positive recovery

India Today  

Gurgaon-based artist Akanksha Sarkar, 41, has given up taking on freelance projects. The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021 estimates that the time it will take to close the global gender gap—in health, education, politics and economics—has increased from 99.5 years to 135.6 years. Home to 650 million women, India has slipped 28 places in the WEF’s Global …

India’s women and the workforce
3 years, 9 months ago

India’s women and the workforce

Hindustan Times  

Why is women’s employment declining in India? The thrust of the predominant explanations is that women are dropping out of paid work or the labour force either because of fear of sexual violence outside the home; or fear of being stigmatised by the community that might see their work as a marker of low status, i.e. Women’s education has increased …

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