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Business Daily: Where are India's Working Women?

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02/09/2015 GMT

Where are India's Working Women?

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Where are India's Working Women?

Why do women make up such a comparatively small proportion of India's formal work force?

The proportion of women employed or seeking work in India is among the lowest in the world. What is holding them back?

Women make up a comparatively small proportion of India's formal labour force. Those that do work tend to be at the extremes of the social spectrum - either poor or highly educated. Why are there not more middle class women working? We hear the stories of a maid and doctor in Delhi, and speak to the newspaper columnist Kalpana Sharma about the cultural and societal factors that are keeping millions of women out of formal employment. 

Plus the BBC's Katy Watson shows us how women in Latin America and the Middle East also struggle to just get on with their working lives.

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