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Women’s employment rate in 2023-24
August 29 , 2025
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- Women’s employment rate nearly doubled from 22% in 2017-18 to 40.3% in 2023-24, according to Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data.
- Female unemployment rate dropped from 5.6% in 2017-18 to 3.2% in 2023-24.
- Rural female employment increased by 96%, while urban female employment grew by 43%.
- Over 1.56 crore women joined the formal workforce in the last seven years, as per Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) payroll data.
- Gender budgets rose by 429% in the last decade, supporting women’s entrepreneurship.
- Seventy central government schemes and over 400 state-level schemes promote female entrepreneurship.
- Nearly half of the startups registered with the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) have at least one-woman director.
- Women received 68% of total loans under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY).
- Forty-four per cent of beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Street Vendor’s Atma Nirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) scheme are women.
- Women-led MSMEs nearly doubled from 1 crore in 2010-11 to 1.92 crore in 2023-24.
- Women-owned proprietary establishments increased from 17.4% in 2010-11 to 26.2% in 2023-24.
- Women-led MSMEs generated over 89 lakh additional jobs for women between fiscal years 2021 and 2023.
- Employability of female graduates rose from 42% in 2013 to 47.53% in 2024.
- Women with postgraduate education have employment rates increasing from 34.5% in 2017-18 to 40% in 2023-24.
- India Skills Report 2025 forecasts 55% of Indian graduates to be globally employable.
- Over 16.69 crore unorganised women workers registered with the e-Shram portal, accessing government social welfare schemes.
- Nari Shakti is central to achieving 70% women workforce participation, a key goal for a developed India by 2047.
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