INDIAN WOMEN’S FALLING PARTICIPATION IN THE LABOUR FORCE: A GENDER DISCRIMINATION PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The involvement of women equally in the workforce is central for ensuring female rights and gender impartiality. Women are significant contributors to the economic development of the country but consideration given to her for his services is not sufficient. Traditionally, people believe that higher parity between female and male employees in a similar business led to amicable and effective surroundings; therefore, all workers will be persuaded to contribute to and promote the business greatly. Across the globe, the females aged between 25 to 54 merely 63 per cent are engaged in different employment whereas the participation of men is 94 per cent of the same age. The Global Sustainable Development Goals guarantee to provide decent working conditions and ensure gender fairness and the upliftment of women. The cause could be her socio-economic interferences tarnished by discrimination and her role as a worker and guardian of society. The number of women participating in the labour force is less because of this females are expected to take up jobs which are unsafe and underpaid and under such circumstances, complete growth remains out of range. The paper examines female participation in the labour force in India. The second part of the paper deals with to what extent marital status, educational level and age influence women's participation in the labour force and the last part of the paper discusses various regulations and strategies which can be instrumental in increasing women's participation in the Labour force.