Female labour force participation rates (LFPR) among women aged 15 and up in India are as low as 26.4 percent in rural regions and 20.4 percent in urban areas, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2018-19. The pandemic is …
Almost half of India’s 900 million voters are women, but the number of woman lawmakers in Lok Sabha account to just 14%. This gives us the dismal rank of 143 out of 192 countries for which data are reported by …
Women’s enrolment in higher education, which was less than 10% of the total enrolment on the eve of Independence, has risen to 48.6% in 2018-19. But share of male students enrolled in engineering and technology is 71.1% compared to female …