Stressing on the need to increase women participation in labour force, the Economic Survey today said that lower women engagement adversely affects the growth potential of the economy. "Among developing countries, there exists gender gaps in labour force participation rates. In the case of India, the gender gap in labour force participation rate is more than 50 percentage points," said the survey tabled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament. As on October 2016, out of the total 4,118 MLAs across the country, only 9 per cent were women. The survey pointed out that in India, between 2010 and 2017 women's representation rose by 1 percentage point to 11.8 per cent in the Lok Sabha.

Source: dna January 29, 2018 15:56 UTC