Abstract
Female are an integral part of the overall development of any economy. Their contribution remained immense in different stages of economic development. The contribution which they make is measured only when they are actively participating in economic activities. In India, the greatest problem that the country is experiencing is that female is either exiting from the work or shifting to the newer areas of work. The basic reason is that they want to be engaged in paid jobs. After the period of economic reform inclination of female towards the paid job is faster than the earlier period. This preference is not only in urban areas but in rural areas as well. The main purpose is to improve the living standard of not only of self but enhance the overall family income to have the better living condition. Today’s women are busy exploring new areas of work. They are trying to improve their qualification and working hard towards skilling themselves. But in the midst of all these efforts from their side, there are many constraints which are proving as a hurdle in their work participation. These bottlenecks need to be removed to provide them with better opportunities so that they can enhance their abilities to adapt themselves with the changes in the internal as well as external environment.
 The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few decades. The objective of my paper is: to know the pattern of female work participation in rural and urban India; to examine the areas from where they are exiting; to know the areas where they are shifting; what needs to be done to stop their exit from the work and how to provide them with work preferences so that their potentialities can be utilized for the overall growth and development of the economy.
Highlights
Females are an integral part of overall development of any economy
The objective of my paper is: to know the pattern of female work participation in rural and urban India; to examine the areas from where they are exiting; to know the areas where they are shifting; what needs to be done to stop their exit from the work and how to provide them work preferences so that their potentialities can be utilized for the overall growth and development of the economy
India’s policies on liberalization, privatization and globalization initiated in the early nineties and more than two decades of reform-induced economic growth have driven the economy to a high growth
Summary
Rural urban, Potential, Economic reform, Economic development, Economic activity. Mehta and Awasthi (2019), wrote about the structural shift in women’s employment from farm to non-farm jobs in services and industries They highlighted the fact that there is steady rise of women in high skilled or ‘new economy’ sectors like information and communication technology, electronics and telecom; and in low skilled work such as domestic work, in urban areas. Industry showed a positive trend till 2011 after that this sector experienced declining trend in terms of Value addition to GDP It is only the service sector which gave a boost to economy in significant manner. Still female employment is greater in this sector in comparison to male since 2000s This draws the fact that economic reform has not brought much changes in the situation of women employment. “Growth –Job- Puzzle” in India is the declining trend in female participation, notably in rural areas
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