Women In Workforce

The anniversary has become a commercialised event

Kovind recalled how women scientists played a critical role in ISRO's Mangalyaan and Chandrayaan 2

This is more than 25% of the new jobs required for the entire working-age population by 2030

Survey in 2017-18 shows women formed 23.3 per cent of labour force compared to 42.7 per cent in 2004-05.

Many products that appear gender-neutral actually default to men's needs, with wealth products in particular not consistently designed for women's financial lives, the report said

Rural women's workforce participation has fallen to 18%, and the participation of urban women is down to 14%

The final part of the series on affirmative action in India Inc finds that women account for just 20% of employees. For most firms, the number is in single digit

The report suggests India in the longer term needs to create far more jobs in the formal organised sector -- 97 per cent of all female worker activity is in the informal sector

Less than 25 per cent of women who went through the major skilling programme we studied held a job for three or more months after their programme