Participation Of Women Workforce In India
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Participation Of WomenWorkforce In India
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4REFERENCES:...............................................................................................................................5
INTRODUCTIONIn the recent times, each and every country is placing high level of emphasis on indulgingequity in employment. With the motive to offer equal opportunities regarding growth anddevelopment now government authorities are taking significant measures or actions. For thisproject, India has been selected where paid parental leave and provision of childcare is emergedout as major issue. In this, report will shed light on the measures undertaken by the governmentauthority in India for enhancing participation of women workforce. Besides this, report willprovide deeper insight about the action that Indian government needs to undertake for improvingparticipation of women workforce as compared to China’s system. MAIN BODYAccording to the report of World Bank among 131 nations of the world on the data ofwomen workforce India ranks 120th which indicate that female participation within the country islowest (World Bank report, 2018). This level of participation is decreasing since 2005 disregardof the fact that there are about 42% of women in India who are graduates. Which means that only27% of the women into the employment or are labour force among so wide Indian population ofabout 1.324billion this is also the lowest in the BRICS nations. As per the report of ReassessingPatterns of Female Labour Force Participation in India on March 2017 which mentioned thatbecause of rising level of income and stability in family lives women of India who were onceinto workforce are been discouraging them. This is also matter of concern that in both rural andurban population of women who are employed as workforce are been complied to leave their jobwhich was about 19.6 million as said in the report.However, as per Raj and Shakya, (2018) changing the industrial structure or theincreasing demand of employment within community is also leading to increased participation ofwomen in job. Then these women are been forced to work in this situation where they do theirwork both as professionals and as housewives. It was also clear from the above rate ofparticipation of women into workforce that there are no signs of getting better. The major issuebehind this will be that of paid parental leave and responsibilities of families which women arebound to perform in spite of the work they are doing. Kanjilal-Bhaduri and Pastore, (2018) alsomentioned that India is experiencing high growth rate and development in the past years but then1
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