Write a note on participation of women in India's cotton textile industry
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Write a note on participation of women in India's cotton textile industry
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Abstract
The great majority of women workers in India are engaged either in agriculture and traditional rural industries or in service occupations. The work participation rate of urban women is significantly lower than that of rural women and that of literate women lower than that of illiterate women. The secular trend is for the participation rate for women to fall. Unless countervailing influences come into play, economic development with its accompanying urbanisation, spread of education and growth of modern industries will be accompanied by a progressive decline in the participation rate for women. Participation of women in large numbers in strategic sectors like education, health, rural extension and social welfare can be a major factor in accelerating changes in attitudes and behaviour patterns which will contribute to modernisation and increase in output. It is, therefore, necessary to investigate the reasons for decline in work participation rate of women and for their negligible participation in modern activities.
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First published in 1949 as the Economic Weekly and since 1966 as the Economic and Political Weekly, EPW, as the journal is popularly known, occupies a special place in the intellectual history of independent India. For more than five decades EPW has remained a unique forum that week after week has brought together academics, researchers, policy makers, independent thinkers, members of non-governmental organisations and political activists for debates straddling economics, politics, sociology, culture, the environment and numerous other disciplines.