New Delhi: North Eastern countries generally have the highest ratio of female workers in managerial positions, with Meghalaya sustain chart with 34.1%, followed by Sikkim and Mizoram, according to the annual bulletin of periodic labor surveys (PLF).
Andhra Pradesh (32.3%) and Punjab (32.1%) are also among countries with a greater representation of women in managerial positions, while Assam has a 6.9% lows ratio.
At the All-India level, the ratio of female workers to total workers in the managerial position is 18.7%.
It is 21.4% in rural areas and 16.4% in urban areas.
Women’s participation in labor has emerged as a field of concern in the past few years because the share has dipped.
The plfs number also revealed that the North-Eastern countries were well when it comes to the ratio of female workers who worked as legislators, senior officials and managers in the countries and the territory of the trade union.
Manipur overcame the list with 51.8%, followed by Meghalaya (51.7%), Sikkim (50.4%) and Andhra Pradesh (47.9%).
Assam again has a lower ratio at 6.2% in this segment.
At the All-India level, the ratio is 23.2%, highlighting the need to have a policy to bridge wide gaps with male workers.
Sikkim addresses the list of countries with the highest female ratio for men among professional and technical workers with 120.2%, followed by Meghalaya (101.5%) and Kerala (91.6%).
Farsam Fares is better in this segment with 52.9% while Manipur has 85.2% of female workers who work as professional and technical staff.
“Women in India still have great land to close to break the glass ceiling because they only occupy 18.8% of senior and medium management positions at all-Indian levels.
Manipur and Meghalaya are ranked first among countries 34.1 % Occupy senior and medium management positions, “said Soumya Kanti Ghosh, the European economic counselor at the Indian state bank.
“India needs to do more in terms of promoting women’s work in terms of a better policy, the work environment that takes into account the responsibility of additional care that falls naturally in women and creates a safe environment where women do not need to fear their physical well-being.
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Women’s literacy rate, North-Eastern countries again outperformed the whole country.
Obviously, education plays a big role in making women empowered and the government must work on policies that are more helpful and more girls to be educated, “Ghosh said.
Separate data also shows a wide gap between male and female workers.
The Quarterly (QES) employment survey released by the Ministry of Labor Union on Monday showed that male workers were 70.7% of the total workers in the nine major non-agricultural sectors while women workers contributed 29.3%.
In the entrepreneurial male segment, the “Accommodation & Restaurant” sector and the trade sector has the highest percentage of shares of 3.6% and 2.9% of the total work, respectively.
The same two sectors were the mainstay of entrepreneurship among women amounting to 0.4%, followed by the financial services sector (0.3%).
Under the employee category, more than three quarters of workers are male in transportation (83.7%), manufacturing (76.9%), construction (76.4%) and trade (75.6%) sector.
Women’s employees contributed 43.9% in education and 39.9% in the health sector.