Employment surveys of large scale have shown that while rural women?s employment has grown over the decades, the fate of the employment is still casualised and self employed. Economic growth and higher rural income has not been able to minimise discrimination of job type or wage, in fact it seems to have pushed women to low paying and unskilled jobs. Work participation unless accompanied by education and skill development does not lead to better outcomes or asset creation hence the significance of education has to be critically analysed.
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