Research shows that senior workers have a greater unemployment rate, compared to younger workers. Here are some strategies you can use when hunting for jobs in your 50s.

The sex ratio in India is expected to improve from 943 in 2011 to 952 by the year 2036 as per the data of the Women and Men in India report of 2022 released on March 16, 2023.

These factors are some of many reasons contributing to the low rate of female employment: marital status, education, caste, and religion.

There is a renewed energy surrounding reproductive leave, demonstrating an increasing acceptance of the complex entanglement of work and personal life.

If you expect your educated sons to have a well-paid job then why do you restrict your educated bahus from going out to work? Rules must be the same for both genders or there should be no rules at all.

Even if a daughter earns less, it is her right to share the responsibility of taking care of her parents with her male sibling. Because it is also not right to impose all the responsibilities on the son just because he is a man.

The report highlights that the share of women in workforce is extremely low in urban areas, i.e. around 10.3 per cent. Worse, their businesses took a bigger hit in COVID.

Women will be allowed to work in all categories and also in the night-shifts with adequate protection, said the Indian FM.

It is important that women capitalize on this experience to lay down healthy boundaries and share the responsibility of domestic tasks.

Women’s participation in urban areas was low initially but dropped further from 17 percent in 2004–05 to 14 per cent in 2017–18 for all ages, and from 23 per cent to 18 per cent for women above fifteen years of age.