53% of Indian women outside workforce due to care duties: ILO

Over 708 million women globally are excluded from economic participation and income-earning opportunities due to unpaid care responsibilities, perpetuating economic dependence and gender inequality.

Across India, more than half of all women remain outside the paid economy — not for want of ability, but because the work of sustaining human life falls almost entirely on their shoulders. A new ILO report places this reality within a global pattern: 708 million women worldwide are excluded from economic participation by unpaid care responsibilities, while comparable men number just 40 million. The disparity is not natural law but the accumulated weight of policy neglect and social expectation — and, as nations that have invested in care infrastructure demonstrate, it is a condition that can b

53% of Indian women outside workforce due to care duties: ILO

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