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, …
Which countries have the highest female workforce participation, and what explains their numbers? This article examines the latest global data, the policy lessons behind high participation, and why women’s work …
The Economic Survey 2025–26 identifies women’s workforce participation as central to India’s long-term economic growth. Yet behind the push for higher participation lie deeper structural problems — unpaid care work, …
India’s demographic dividend is incomplete without women. Despite higher education rates, only 37% of Indian women are in the workforce—and most are in informal or unpaid roles. This article explores …
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