Female Labour Force

The Productivity Debate and Women’s Work: Careers or Family Care?

Educated women leaving the workforce hurts India’s growth. But child & family care options are lacking in the work structures we now have. We need “bridge” jobs, like part-time work, to help…
▶23-Apr-2024
Mala Khullar, Ratna M Sudarshan

Making Sense of Recent Developments in the Indian Labour Market

The PLFS for 2022-23 reports the highest workforce participation rate and the lowest unemployment rate in the last six years. This has been the result of the entry of an increasing number of women…
▶17-Oct-2023
Akshit Arora

Growth, Structural Change, and Opportunities: Who has Benefited?

While the connection between GDP and job growth in India has been poor, there has been a rapid increase of women in the modern services; while there has been greater job mobility, this has been very…
▶20-Sep-2023
Amit Basole, Akshit Arora, M. K. Shravan

What Do We Miss on Women’s Employment in Survey Data?

Women’s participation in work turns out to be much higher than usually estimated when modifications are made to the questions asked in surveys, the time period covered and, most important, who is…
▶21-Feb-2023
Rosa Abraham, Nishat Anjum, Rahul Lahoti, Hema Swaminathan

Reconceptualising Women’s Work in the the National Sample Survey

A good approach to build a new framework for measuring women’s work better is for the National Statistical Office to accept the definitions and categories recommended in 2013 by the 19th…
▶04-Aug-2022
Santosh Mehrotra

How Dynamic are India’s Labour Markets?

While policy works to provide more jobs to the unemployed, it must also tackle the deep-seated structural issues in India's urban labour market: long-term unemployment; women exiting the labour…
▶07-Jun-2022
Rahul Menon, Paaritosh Nath
Explainer

Understanding India's Jobs Challenge

Unemployment today is at an all-time high but that is not the only challenge in jobs: more and more workers are withdrawing from the labour force, the wages of casual workers are below a reasonable…
▶26-Aug-2019
Radhicka Kapoor

The Visible and Invisible Barriers to Indian Women Working

Cultural factors do not explain why so few women are in paid work. The demands of housework and the need to care for the elderly limit the ability of many women to work outside. When they do look for…
▶30-Jul-2019
Ashwini Deshpande