Women share in urban salaried jobs at 6-yr low
Business Standard|May 20, 2024
The share of women employed in regular ☐ salaried jobs in urban India hit a fresh low in the January-March quarter (Q4) of 2023-24 (FY24).
SHIVA RAJORA
Women share in urban salaried jobs at 6-yr low

In the same period, the share of women engaged in self-employment went up.

An analysis of the latest quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data showed the share of women in regular wage work among all employed women stood at 52.3 per cent in Q4FY24, down from 53 per cent in the previous quarter. The earlier low was recorded in the second quarter of FY24 when the share of women employed in regular wage work had fallen to 52.8 per cent. This is the lowest share of women in wage employment in any quarter in the past six years since the National Statistical Office started releasing the quarterly PLFS surveys in the third quarter (Q3) of 2018-19.

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