Only four in ten Indian women participate in the labour force (people who are either working or looking for work as a share of the population), according to India's most recent labour statistics. This number is lower than in many countries at comparable levels of income and development. But many of the 300 million Indian women out of the labour force are working, just not in the way that labour statistics define work. In both Indian and international labour statistics, activities that produce goods for self-use and sale are considered work. So, a farmer growing vegetables for the household to eat constitutes work, as does her selling those vegetables in the market. But when it comes to services, only those activities that produce an output which can be sold are considered work. So, transporting the harvested vegetables to the market for sale is work, but cooking those vegetables for household members or feeding small children is not considered work. This unpaid care and domestic work is mostly performed by women. Whether this unpaid care work should be counted as productive work is a widely debated topic in labour economics both in India and globally. What kinds of jobs are women who remain in the workforce doing? Read @akwaghmare’s piece to find out: dataforindia.com/women-and-w… #Work #Women #Employment #LFPR #India #DataForIndia