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Occupational Gender Segregation and Female Labor Force Participation in India

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Labor force participation rate (LFPR) is the proportion of the employed and those looking for employment, among the working-age group (those between 15 and 64 years), of the total working-age population of a country. It provides a measure of the labor supply of a country, available for the production of goods and services for a wage. It only includes labor that is being, or seeking to be, exchanged for a wage and excludes any labor that might have use value but is not remunerated in pecuniary terms (ILO n.d.). Female labor force participation or women’s labor market participation,following from the definition of labor force participation, is typically measured as women that are employed or seeking work as a share of the working-age female population. Since labor not done for a wage (such as domestic work or care-work within the household) is not counted as labor force participation, and since such work is predominantly done by women, many argue (see, for e.g., Mondal et...

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Sahai, G. (2020). Occupational Gender Segregation and Female Labor Force Participation in India. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_124-1

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