Palla, Anuradha  <br/><br/>
Trends in women work force participation rates in India. 

 - South Asian Journal of Socio-Political Studies 
 - 25(2), Jan-Jun, 2025: p.79-84 
<br/><br/> Work Force Participation or Labour Force Participation is an important factor in the study of development process. The participation rates may vary by region, by sex, and by time. Changes may be caused by demographic factors like fertility, mortality, migration etc., by economic factors like growth of the economy, government employment programmes, expansion of employment opportunities in the private sector etc., and also by the expansion of education, skills development, vocational training opportunities etc. In India the occupational structure has remained almost static over the period of our study from 1901 to 2017. In the case of Work Force Participation Rate by sex, it had been much higher for males as compared to females. The Work Participation rate of females has been increased in India since 1971. It raised from 14.2 per cent in 1971 to 25.51 per cent in 2017. This is due to increasing literacy and declining birth rate. The total Work Force Participation Rate in 2017 Census at the all India level is merely 39.79 per cent. The male Work Force Participation Rate (53.26%) is almost double the female Work Force Participation Rate (28.5%). Himachal Pradesh has the highest female Work Participation Rate (51.85%) in India. Yet it would be noted that more than 50 per cent of its women are not counted as workers. Lakshadweep stands at the lowest of the state in the country with the female work participation rate of 29.09 per cent. The female work force participation is low in all sectors and in all states as against to male work participation rates, even though the Government of India is implementing some policies and programmes for improvement in the work force participation of women in India. Problems of working women in India differ considerably in the formal and informal sector. Women workers face specific problems in each occupation depending upon nature and area of work, level of their education and the prevailing social set up.- Reproduced <br/><br/>https://www.sajospsglobal.com/current.html<br/>