"In India, womens participation in the labor force stands at around 27 percent, lower than any other country in the G-20, except for Saudi Arabia. Standard models suggest that a lucky confluence of factors economic expansion, rising education levels and plummeting fertility would draw women swiftly into Indias economy.Instead, the opposite is happening: From 2005 to 2012, womens participation rates slid to 27 percent from 37 percent, largely because rural women were dropping out of the work force. Of 189 countries studied by the International Labour Organization, India ranks 17th from the bottom." - The New York TimesRead More: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/world/asia/indian-women-labor-work-force.html