Women In Workforce

Hard-sell on Women's Day

The anniversary has become a commercialised event

Only 15% R&D workforce are women: Kovind at launch of equality initiatives

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

Women in business can generate 170 mn jobs in India by 2030: Report

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

Women's role in labour force declining due to education, migration: Govt

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

Finance industry can earn extra $700 bn a year by focusing on women

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

More women are self-employed in India, fewer hold salaried jobs

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

Women in workforce? A work in progress, even in India's largest companies

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

Just around 25% of India's workforce is female, says McKinsey report

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

Skill India can retain women in workforce

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