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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=...

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.



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.




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