female labour force participation

The government’s October update highlights women’s expanding economic participation. We unpack the 40% figure, distinguish it from newer monthly data, and examine the income, security and choices that turn work …

India’s education gains deserve celebration. New labour-force data asks a harder question: can women turn those qualifications into work they can enter and sustain?

District employment figures can help identify where women are participating. The next questions concern earnings, care, transport and whether available jobs are within reach.

India’s August labour data shows higher participation, stronger employment and lower rural unemployment. Women’s LFPR rose again to 34.8%, but the improvement remains concentrated in rural India.

India’s female labour-force participation has risen sharply, and women’s wages are growing too. The next opportunity is to turn higher participation into stronger income, productivity, formality, ownership and economic power.

Female labour-force participation rose sharply to 34.4% in July 2026, but rural women accounted for much of the improvement. Urban female participation remains weaker and urban female unemployment rose to …

Women lost 32,000 US payroll jobs in July and accounted for more than the entire decline in the labour force. On the same day, the S&P 500 closed at a …

More Indian women are being counted as employed, but much of the rise is coming through agriculture and unpaid family labour. That makes the progress real, but incomplete.

The Global Unemployment Gender Gap reveals more than joblessness. Women’s access to work is shaped by care, safety, law, hiring bias and whether they are counted in the labour force …

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha has said women’s workforce participation in the state has increased from 37.5% in 2022 to 45.9% in 2025, linking the rise to efforts around entrepreneurship, …