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One aspect of this could be the support in India for maternal care? https://www.sumhr.com/blog/maternity-leave-in-india#:~:text=In%20India%2C%20all%20women%20w

One aspect of this could be the support in India for maternal care? https://www.sumhr.com/blog/maternity-leave-in-india#:~:text=In%20India%2C%20all%20women%20working,paid%20maternity%20leave%20in%20India.&text=ALSO%20READ%3A%20What%20is%20Payroll%3F https://www.sumhr.com/blog/maternity-leave-in-india#:~:text=... Compare this with US where mothers are expected to be back to "normal levels of productivity" within 6-12 weeks. Any more is really a company benefit.

dirtyid 4y ago
It's been sinking since 2000s and intuitively, Indian TFR is not high enough to explain such low female labour force participation, where world average is 50%. Also plenty of of countries with much better maternity benefits and significantly higher participation rates, but not fair to compare OECD. Culturally, I think it's driven by traditional social pressure for women to stay at home if husband can be bread winner, or jobs get deferred to men when times are tough.