OCTOBER 20229Tamil Nadu is a safe place for women with around 7.08 lakh working in the state, which is nearly half of India's 15.93 lakh working women according to the Annual Survey of Industriesthe women workforce. Plus, the high enrolment ratio of girls in the state's schools is helping in leveraging the women workforce. The policy of Tamil Nadu is meant for offering financial and accommodation supporting skill training for girls in a subject of their choice. The training includes entrepreneurial training and the state is open to opportunities for women and girls for upskilling women who had a break in their careers. The state is active in searching for ways to integrate technical skills into the curriculum with the providence of incentives for pursuing courses that further smoothens the transition from education to work for adolescent girls in vulnerable communities is invaluable. Skill training in terms of upskilling and reskilling courses is being transcended for allowing women to work at lateral entry at a higher career level after the break. 1. More than half of the female workforce in the rural locations of the state have agriculture and allied activities as a profession. 53 percent are working in the employed sector where construction is the second largest employer with a share of 16.4 percent which is followed by manufacturing at nearly 15 percent services at 8.3 percent and trade, hotels, and restaurants at 6.7 percent. 2. The distribution of rural women workers by the major industries inclines that women without agriculture as a profession stat out the total number of rural women workers in the major industries such as manufacturing and construction is significant and women are contributing to the evolution of tertiary sector industries including services and trade, hotels and restaurants. 3. Women workers in services are more in number than the urban female workforce which is 36.3 percent and 28.6 percent of women from urban places are involved in manufacturing, 16.6 percent in trading, hotels, and restaurants, and 8.4 percent are in agriculture. 5 percent of the urban female workforce are employed in construction and transport, storage, and communications. 4. The tertiary sector is contributing to more than 50 percent of urban women employees. 5. The sectoral distribution of urban women workers is 28.6 percent which is higher than what is observed in the northern and eastern states. Conclusion The state of Tamil Nadu is filling the gap in gender-biased employment which is still a problem in the urban Indian workforce and women are getting more education which is a better attitude of helping India to move toward women's safety and women's independence.
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