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Title: Declining women labour force participation in India
Authors: Agarwal, Disha 
Keywords: Women labour;Women wages;Women empowerment
Issue Date: 2019
Publisher: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Series/Report no.: PGP_CCS_P19_060
Abstract: Increased participation of women in the workforce increases productivity, boots GDP and incomes. As per the report, Women at Work, Trends 2016, published by ILOi , female labour force participation globally stood at 49.6% in 2015. However, there is a lot of variation in female labour force participation (FLPR) across countries. In 2015, FLPR stood at 28.3% in South Asia, 56.7% in the USA, 62% in China and 58.8% in South-East Asiaii . Apart from Nepal, all countries in South Asia have low FLPR. In 2015, Nepal had a high FLPR of 81.13%, Bangladesh had a FLPR of 32.38% and Sri Lanka had a FLPR of 35.9%. High FLPR in Nepal has been attributed to migration of spouses which puts women in the workforce. FLPR for Bangladesh has increased recently due to growth in labour-intensive export based industries in urban areas and expansion of microfinance in rural areas. Sri Lanka’s FLPR has remained constant for more than a decade despite the increase in female literacy, decline in maternal mortality and low fertility rate. This has been linked with occupational segregation and low levels of female entrepreneurship
URI: https://repository.iimb.ac.in/handle/2074/20016
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