No jobs for moderately educated women in India; less educated women still have a chance: World Bank
If you are a moderately educated woman, you are significantly less likely to grab a job in India, compared to your higher- or lower-educated fellows. This paradoxical relationship between female education and labor force participation in India is highlighted by the latest report on ‘Analyzing Female Employment Trends in South Asia’ by the World Bank.
The real problem behind the low female labour participation rate in India is the exclusion of women from white-collar clerical and retail sales jobs, which is among the major employment sectors for moderately educated workers, and typically female in the rest of the world.
