Main content

How can India add more women to its workforce?

How can Indian women get better, more equitable opportunities? And is it possible to have a more diverse employee pool in both formal and informal sectors?

India’s festive season has prompted a surge in hiring of women for temporary jobs. But women still represent a small proportion of India’s workforce. Experts say corporate India is paying more attention to diversity in the workplace, opening many opportunities for women employees, but numbers still remain worryingly low.

India's overall joblessness is worrying: the country's unemployment rate has exceeded that of most emerging economies in recent years. Women also face enormous discrimination in the job market, and earn less than men even when they have the same qualifications and experience.

How can Indian women get better, more equitable opportunities? And is it possible to have a more diverse employee pool in both formal and informal sectors? In this edition of WorklifeIndia, we discuss how can India add more women to its workforce.

Presenter: Divya Arya
Contributors: Amitabh Behar, CEO, Oxfam India; Rituparna Chakraborty, co-founder and executive director, TeamLease Services; Sabina Dewan, president and executive director, JustJobs Network

Available now

26 minutes

Last on

Sun 30 Oct 2022 05:32GMT

Image credit

A woman working on a laptop in a warehouse (Credit: Mayur Kakade/Getty Images)

Broadcasts

  • Fri 28 Oct 2022 14:32GMT
  • Sun 30 Oct 2022 05:32GMT

Podcast