Abstract
This article analyses the women labor force participation in Malaysia. The rapid absorption of women into the labor market has been influenced by several factors. The rapid economic growth was due largely to important growth in the manufacturing and services sectors, where substantial and proportionally larger increase of female workers has been registered. Among all sectors of the economy, the manufacturing sector has recorded the highest growth rate during the last decade. The rising in the female labor force participation may also be attributable to improving economic incentives in employment and policies favoring the employment of women. In addition, the combined effects of the increase in years of schooling, access to family planning services, improved maternal and availability of child care, leading to arise in the average age at marriage, have allowed women to take advantage of the increased employment opportunities.
Highlights
Human resource is one of the main contributing factors for economic growth and for social, political, and technological development
The labour force participation rate (LFPR), which measures the people in the labour force as a percentage of the non-institutionalized population, increased from 65.3 per cent in 2001 to 65.5 per cent in 2002; attributed mainly by school leavers in the 20-24 years age group
The probability of participation in the labour force is significantly higher for women who live in the urban areas where job opportunities are greater compared to the rural areas
Summary
Human resource is one of the main contributing factors for economic growth and for social, political, and technological development. Various human resource development planning and strategies are formulated and action plans are outlined at various phases of development. Human resource development continued to be given priority in support of the implementation of a productivity-driven growth, which required highly skilled, trainable and knowledge able manpower. Emphasis continued to be given to increased accessibility to education at all levels in line with the democratization of the education policy. The high growth rate of the economy was achieved with price stability and since 1995, with virtually full employment before the currency crisis erupted in the late 1997. The achievement of virtually full employment in 1995 marked a new landmark in the country’s socioeconomic progress. The situation was different after the currency crisis which occurred in 1997
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