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Among women in the age group, this share was 32.5 percent, while for men it was 42 percent
CEDA’s flagship monthly publication curates the most essential updates about women’s participation in the economy.
Bigger firms tend to employ a larger proportion of women, possibly because they offer better non-wage benefits (such as maternity leave, childcare, transport, paid leaves and healthcare benefits) to workers.
In 2022-23, 58.3 percent of Indians aged 15-59 years (the working age group) were part of its labour force. But this share was not uniformly distributed across the entire age group.
CEDA’s interactive data portal lets users generate and download visualizations of socio-economic and demographic indicators for India.
The Economist quotes CEDA research in their article on India’s female labour-force participation rate.
Business Standard quotes CEDA research in their article on gender gap in workplaces.
The Mint quotes a CEDA data narrative on POSH complaints in India.
The Economic Times quotes a CEDA data narrative on women’s labour force participation in India.
Article 14 cites CEDA research on fostering gender-inclusive workspaces and also data from the POSH act in their article on women in senior leadership roles in the country.
The Wire republishes a CEDA data narrative on the contractualisation of workforce in India’s factories