The examine, carried out by the nonprofit Udaiti Basis, discovered that the proportion of ladies within the formal workforce remained at 18%, a lower of 1 percentile level in comparison with 2020-21. |Photograph courtesy of Kommuri Srinivas
Virtually half of the two,647 firms listed on the Nationwide Inventory Change don’t have any girls in key administration positions, based on an evaluation of firm filings. On common, the variety of girls in such positions by 2024-2025 was 0.64 per firm, with solely 10% of NSE-listed firms using a couple of girl in these management positions.
The examine, carried out by the nonprofit Udaiti Basis, discovered that the proportion of ladies within the formal workforce remained at 18%, a lower of 1 percentile level in comparison with 2020-21. The scenario is even worse for normal staff who earn greater than 18,000 rupees a month. Ladies made up 21% of this group in 2020-21, however that proportion shrank to simply 12% in 2024-25. In distinction, the share of ladies amongst low-wage staff, as outlined by wage legal guidelines, rose from 19% to 23% over the identical interval, indicating that ladies are being squeezed out of higher-paying jobs within the formal sector and relegated to lower-wage jobs.
