Urban female labour participation rate falls to its lowest in November since 2016: CMIE
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Data from CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey shows the urban female labour participation rate (FLPR) in April, which was the first month of lockdown, fell to 7.35%. This was over 200 basis points lower than its average of 9.7% in 2019-20 and much lower than rural female labour participation rate of 11.3% in the last fiscal. It dropped to 7.2% in October and fell further in November at 6.9%.
The declining urban female labour participation rate in India fell to its lowest in November at 6.9% since the data was first computed in 2016. This trend is against expectation as urban women are more educated and there are better job opportunities in urban India, says the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy.
Updated Dec 17, 2020 | 21:14 IST
According to CMIE, India’s biggest challenge on the employment front is getting its womenfolk into the labour force Urban women workforce participation rate shrinks to its lowest in November since 2016, says CMIE
New Delhi: The urban female labour participation rate in the country fell to its lowest in November at 6.9% since the data was first computed in 2016. The trend is against expectation as urban women are more educated and there are better job opportunities in urban India, says Mahesh Vyas, MD and CEO, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).
Speaking on Friday at the Women@Work conference organised by the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune International Centre, India Development Foundation and the Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, Vyas said during 2018 and 2019, when there were no economic shocks, the female participation in the labour force had stabilised at 11%, which indicate
If initial trends indicated by data from the first phase of the survey hold for subsequent phases, many gains made in the recent past with regard to women and children’s health and wellbeing could be reversed, as we
reported on December 13.
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While National Family Health Survey reports a marginal increase in the percentage of women who said they had worked for cash, it does not factor in the effect of the pandemic on India’s already low female labour force participation of 24%, as recorded in the
Employment data released by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy for November 2020
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The year 2020 will go down in history as one which not only locked us indoors, but which also made many cast doubts on job security.
Just after the coronavirus-induced lockdown was announced in March earlier this year, India suffered job losses en masse. Millions of skilled and salaried workers were laid off just as the nationwide lockdown was announced. According to a survey conducted by Azim Premji University,