Share of women employees in CPSEs dips to 9.35% in FY21: Survey

According to the report, the number of women employees in CPSEs declined 9.5% to 80,525 in FY21 when pandemic hit the economy

The share of women employees in central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) dropped to 9.35 per cent in 2020-21 (FY21), from 10 per cent in the preceding year (2019-20, or FY20), in a sign of widening gender gap in government-owned companies, according to the latest Public Enterprises Survey.  

This is way below the all-India female labour force participation rate which stood at 25.1 per cent, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey annual report for the period July 2020-June 2021.

According to the report, the number of women employees in CPSEs declined 9.5 per cent to 80,525 in FY21 when pandemic