Women’s Labour Force Participation Report: Oxfam
- On 29th March, 2019, Oxfam India released Mind ‘The Gap: The State of Employment in India’, a report analysing the country’s employment situation in the country specifically from the gender lens.
- The report finds that the women’s labour force participation in India is one of the lowest in the world. Women comprise half of the Indian population but make up less than a quarter of the labour force. Three in four Indian women do not work in the country.
- Oxfam based its estimates on employment unemployment survey (EUS) 2011-12, done by the National Sample Survey Oganisation (NSSO),International Labour Organization (ILO) studies, and ....
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