The Stats For Working Women

Do you believe that women today can do anything?That they are to be found working at every manner of job as per their education.skills and inclinations?That with increasing education among women its only a matter of time till we automatically achieve gender diversity in the work-place?Take a look at the figures and tell me if you still think the same.

In Indian cities the proportion of working women has fallen from a little more than 14% in 1972-73 to a little more than 13% in 2011-2012.And in rural areas the proportion of women at work has shrunk from 32% to 18%.

Have so many women acquired passive incomes to quit work?So what do these figures say about the economic independence of women?