The paper deals with different aspects of female employment and compares the pre– and post- reforms situation. It looks at the structure of sectoral output and productivity differentials between the broad sectors to contextualize women's employment in India. Whether the macro level output...

Recently, the issue of declining female labour force participation in Indian labour market accompanied by its impressive economic growth rate has become an important concern for both policy makers and academicians. Studies on this topic propose some probable reasons for this peculiarity in...