Women : Statistics

Infant Mortality
    Estimated Birth rate, Death rate, Natural growth rate and Infant mortality rate, 2001
    Infant mortality rate by sex and residence, 2001

Overall

• The Working women population has risen from 13% in 1987 to 25% in 2001
• In 1996, there were 8.4 million unemployed educated women registered with the Employment Exchange. This is primarily because of lack of awareness about opportunities
• The ratio of educated women to educated men is 40:60. (graduates and above)
• The number of women in senior manageme0nt in India is 3%
• While men work for money, status and satisfaction, women work for the same, but in a reverse order
• As many women drop out at middle levels for family reasons.
• 90% of working women feel that they would continue working if their employers provided onsite creches.
• In a sample survey of 2,143 educated housewives across Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, 98.7% said they would have worked if they had got a flexi-work option.

Source : A Businessworld Special; March 2002

Women

• No. of Women in India (2001) : 496 mn
• India's female population is larger than the combined total populations of Canada, USA and the Russian Federation.
• No. of Women for every 1,000 men : 933
• Women Literacy In India : 54% (compared to 76% men)
• In India every 26 minutes, a woman is molested
• In India every 34 minutes, a woman is raped.
• In India every 42 minutes, an incident of sexual harassment takes place.
• In India every 43 minutes, a woman is kidnapped.
• In India every 93 minutes, a woman is killed.

Women are under-represented in governance and decision making positions. At present, less than 8% of Parliamentary seats, less than 6% of Cabinet positions, less than 4% of seats in High Courts and the Supreme Court, are occupied by women. Less than 3% of administrators and managers are women.

The Missing Women
If women and men were treated equally in India, we could expect that there would be around 105 women for every 100 men.

Thus, in the present population of 1.03 billion, there ought to be 528 million women. Instead, estimates show only 496 million women in the population today. This implies that there are some 32 million "missing" women in India. Some are never born, and the rest die because they do not have the opportunity to survive.

Maternal Mortality : International Score Card
India’s Maternal Motality Rate in 1998 was 407 deaths per 1,00,000 live births.

Some 1,00,000 to 1,20,000 women die every year due to pregnancy related causes.

The National Family Health Survey : for 1998-99 places the estimates 540 deaths per 1,00,000 live births for the 2 year period preceding the survey, vary from 619 deaths in rural areas to 267 deaths in urban areas.

Maternal Motality Rate in India are 100 times what they are in developed countries and significantly higher than developing countries like Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Cuba.

Within India Maternal Motality Rates are highest in Uttar Pradesh  - 707 per 1,00,000 live births only five countries in the world including Chad, Eritrea, Mozambique, Central African Republic report a higher Maternal Motality Rate than Uttar Pradesh.

Thursday, February 05, 2009