The Persistent Problem

From 2005 to 2018, female labor participation in India declined to 21 percent from about 32 percent, one of the lowest rates in the world. The labor participation rate for men also dropped — India is experiencing a youth boom and has not been able to create enough new jobs to keep up — but as extensively as they did for women. Economists have offered several explanations for the slide, including a cultural one: As India’s economy expanded, families that could afford to keep women at home did so, thinking it afforded them a degree of social status.

As two young women who made a run for another country, in pursuit of education and safer life, we do feel guilty that our fellow women are facing not just casual sexual harassment at work, but the fear of losing their economic independence because girls in India are required to stay quiet and in the kitchen.

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