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Conditions

How people live: what is measured, what the measurement leaves out, and what nobody has counted.

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A hundred working-age women. About a third are counted as in the labour force; the rest are not counted as working at all.

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What India counts when it counts women who work

A record of how India measures women's participation in the labour force, what that measurement leaves outside itself, and what the numbers in circulation actually rest on. It opens on one article and one disagreement inside it.

published 5 Sep 2026 · last meaningfully updated 5 Sep 2026 · last reviewed 5 Sep 2026