Study on Economic Empowerment of Indian Women through Education – an Enabling Factor for Women Labour Force Participation
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 4
Abstract
World Bank (2010) asserts that women empowerment is one of the key elements for poverty reduction and achieving primary development goals among developing economies. In India where the focus is increasingly shifting towards „inclusive growth‟, empowering women through improved education has become a key central policy across the nation. UN Women Report, 2005 establishes that educating the girl child is extremely important not only to ensure gender equality but in enabling them to be part of the countries labor force thereby aiding economic growth. This study therefore dwells deeper into the state of adult education of women in India and finds that even though the enrolment rates of women has been increasing, but the employment of women continues to be extremely low. This study further outlines the various reasons and barriers that affect women employability and subsequently put forward various policy measures to be taken up by the government to tackle this problem of women education as a limiting factor to their labor force participation.
Authors and Affiliations
Aayushi Ghosh, Shivani Mehta
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP418640
- DOI 10.9790/0837-2304064860.
- Views 56
- Downloads 0
Awareness of Post-Partum Psychiatric Syndromes among Obstetricians And Gynaecologists
The aim of the present study was to examine the awareness of Post-Partum Psychiatric Syndromes (PPPS) amongst the Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (OB-GYNs). The sample included 30 practising OBGYNs who met the inclusion...
The Bright Young People in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies and Anthony Powell’s Afternoon Men
This paper focuses on the meaningless, empty lives of the “Bright Young People” as depicted in Waugh‟s Vile Bodies and Powell‟s Afternoon Men. Both novels are vivid reflections of the purposeless, empty life of this gene...
Perceptions about Pre-Marital Counselling and Marriage Stability in Botswana: A Case of Towing Village
Studies have shown that divorce cases are becoming rampant or occurring at alarming rate and one of the processes that is believed could have a positive impact on marriage or reduce these accelerated divorce rates is pre...
Energy used, economic growth and environmental quality in Malaysia: An Application of ARDL Quadratic Model
This paper studies the validation of the environment and energy: the environmental quality, growth, renewable and non-renewable energy used as well as FDI in Malaysia, using time series data for the periods of 1980–2014...
African Culture in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: a Stylistic Inquiry
African literature is a manifestation of African society, culture, historical and political experience. African literary artists therefore aim at among others, projecting their culture to the world. This is a feat that A...