19 September 2026
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India’s Female Employment Gap: Where Is the Real Bottleneck?
PLFS data for April–August 2026 reveal three distinct challenges: bringing more women into the labour force, converting urban participation into employment, and improving young women’s transition into work. India’s gender employment challenge is often discussed through a single indicator female labour-force participation. But the latest Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data reveal that the problem…