Why India’s Female Labour Force Participation Rate has been Dwindling

The World Bank’s Reassessing Patterns of Female Labor Force Participation in India report begins with a rather unsettling truth, “Jawaharlal Nehru once remarked, ‘I have long been convinced that a nation’s progress is intimately connected with the status of its women’ (Parthasarathi, 1985). In the wake of successive waves of economic liberalization, the ‘condition’ of […]