BUT VERY FEW FIND WORK

India ranks 108 out of 144 countries in the World Economic Forum ’s Global Gender Gap Report 2017, which measured countries’ performance inensuring parity between women and men. Among four sub-categories of health, educational attainment, political empowerment and economicparticipation, it was in the last that the country ranked lowest. That despite higher enrolment rates for girls.Here’s what goes wrong between a girl child starting school and a woman entering the labour force…Girls mostly lead boys in enrolments in primary and secondary education in the official age range. There are fewer girls than boys at all levels of educational attainment. The report considered persons with at least a primary, secondary or tertiary education degree in the official age range.*Contributing family worker: Person who holds a self-employment job in a market-oriented establishment operated by a related person living in the same household, and who cannot be regarded as a partner and is not the head of the establishment. **Own-account workers: Self-employed personswho do not hire paid employees but may have assistance from contributing family workersProportion of working-age population that engages actively in the labour market, either by working or looking for work