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The Quality Enrichment Programme (QEP) for 2024/25 focuses on gender issues, particularly economic empowerment and the gender gap in labor force participation, remuneration, and representation in senior positions. It highlights the low percentage of women entrepreneurs in India, which stands at approximately 15%, and discusses the barriers women face in accessing education, career advancement, and political participation. The document emphasizes the need for addressing these gaps to improve women's economic status and representation in various sectors.

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QEP 2024 - Theme - Gender Issues - theIAShub - PPT 2 PDF

The Quality Enrichment Programme (QEP) for 2024/25 focuses on gender issues, particularly economic empowerment and the gender gap in labor force participation, remuneration, and representation in senior positions. It highlights the low percentage of women entrepreneurs in India, which stands at approximately 15%, and discusses the barriers women face in accessing education, career advancement, and political participation. The document emphasizes the need for addressing these gaps to improve women's economic status and representation in various sectors.

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QUALITY ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME – QEP 2024/25

TARGET MAINS
2024/25

THEME :
GENDER ISSUES

QUALITY ENRICHMENT
PROGRAMME (QEP)

BY DIVYA RATURI – PPT 2

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ISSUE: ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

LABOUR FORCE
PARTICIPATION

PARTICIPATION GAP

REMUNERATION ADVANCEMENT
GAP GAP
REPRESENTATION IN
GENDER WAGE GAP
SENIOR POSITIONS

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CAUSES FOR ECONOMIC/OCCUPATIONAL GENDER GAP


Socialization/societal Subject choices Thus, women underrepresented in
expectations, steeped in impact career Engineering, ICT, Manufacturing,
Patriarchy, impacts trajectories of Construction etc. & overrepresented
Men & Women in Education, Health & Welfare (low
paying jobs)
ACCESS TO FIELD OF STUDY
EDUCATION CHOICES

Gender Biased Hiring imbalances across industries restricting learning on


the job, access to technology, access to skills to succeed in industry

Household responsibilities  Productive years lost or Career Break or low


productivity (Exhaustion due to DUAL BURDEN)

Economic/Occupational Gender gap = Lower Labour force


participation, Low wages, Lower representation in Senior positions

IMPACT OF LOW
FEMALE LFPR

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WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN INDIA

Women Entrepreneur as a % of Total 15% (approx. 8 million)


Entrepreneur (very low considering women constitute
(6th Economic Census) nearly 50% of India’s population)

Of the total Women Entrepreneur


- % in Agriculture Sector 35%
Majorly in Livestock (31.5%)
- % in Non - Agriculture Sector 65%
Majorly in Manufacturing (30%) & Retail
(20%)
Total Employment by Women owned 13.45 million people (10%)
Establishments (90% of WE informal units hiring <10 workers)
Average Employment per establishment 1.67
for women owned establishment (>80% of WE were without hired workers)

STATE WISE ESTABLISHMENTS UNDER WOMEN

State % of total establishments


owned by women Concentrated in few states - >
50% in 4 Southern States &
Tamil Nadu 13.51% Maharashtra

Kerala 11.35% Tamil Nadu ranks 1st in terms


of establishment under women
Andhra Pradesh 10.56%
South India fares better than
West Bengal 10.33% North India

Maharashtra 8.25%

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QUALITY ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME – QEP 2024/25

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN INDIA

According to 4th MSME Census:


- Women enterprise = About 7% of the
MSME sector
- 97.5% of Women owned MSMEs are
micro units.

According to NASSCOM
- Only around 9% of start-up founders in
India are Women

INDIA’S POSITION ON INDEX OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS: 52/57

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FACTORS DETERRING MEN & WOMEN FROM ENTERING POLITICS

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