Decline in Woman's Participation in Work Force: A Stone in India's Path to Success!
Dear Reader, (The views are entirely personal and is not intended to spread hatred towards any person.) The recent developments in the fields like access to education, freedom, higher incomes and wages for woman are commendable for our country, but we are slowly inching towards a grave issue- reduction of woman in the country's workforce . While woman's literacy growth rate has seen a whooping jump of 11.8% (Source: Wikipedia), woman's participation has fell to 21% in the recent years. By comparing our figures with our neighbors like Sri Lanka's 33.7% and Bangladesh's 30.5%, we realize that we are very far behind. Now let us dive into the reasons of why this problem is spreading its pangs into India. The boon of rising household incomes has turned out into a bane for active participation of woman into the rural workforce. When income increases, woman find it easier to take up their traditional and conventional roles of housekeeping. Unmarried women in the age-