Women employment in organised sector steadily rising in Nagaland

May 16, 2023 45 Views No Comment

Our Correspondent
Kohima | May 16

The number of women employed in organised sectors has been steadily increasing over the years in Nagaland and stood at as high as 55.24% in private sector during 2020-21, an official report highlighted.

During 2005-06, 18.23% and 35.02% of women were engaged in public and private sector which increased to 23.68% and 55.24% respectively during 2020-21, according to the Annual Administrative Report 2022-2023 of the Department of Economics & Statistics, Nagaland.

“It is visible the women are ahead of men in private sector employment but are largely lagging behind in public sector employment,” it highlighted.

During 2020-21, female employment in public sector constituted 25.75% to total employment.

As per Employment Exchange Report, 36.04% of the total registrationswere women in 2014 which increased to 37.44 % during 2021.

Dimapur district has the highest number of Women Employment registration.

As per PMIS Report, total female government employee comprised of only 22.46% of total employees during 2014 which substantially increased to 31.26 % in 2021 out of which 31.33%, 28.42%, 28.53% and 36.55% of female employees falls under the categories of Class-I, Class-II, Class-III and Class-IV Respectively.

Female literacy rate register increase
As per 2011 census, literacy rate in Nagaland stands at 79.55% as compared to 66.60% during 2001 census which is an increase of 19.44 %.

The report stated that the female literacy rate has increased from 61.50% during 2001 to 76.11%during 2011.
District of Mokokchung has the highest female literacy rate of 91%.

On the other hand, district of Kiphire has the lowest female literacy rate of 64% indicating the need for urgent government intervention to check the imbalances in the female literacy rate, the report stated.

Gross Enrolment Ratio
During 2020-21, the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) for General Education at primary level for females and males were 247% and 245% respectively.

GER for upper primary class were 82% for females and 77% for males, at elementary level it was 144% for females and 140% for males and at secondary level and higher secondary level, it was 64% females and 57% males and 37% females and 31% females respectively.

The report stated that Gender Parity Index in the state was 0.95 and 1.01 for primary and upper primary respectively and 0.97 for elementary section during 2020-21.

As per UDISE+, drop-out rates for boys and girls in the primary level during the year 2020-21 was 6.00% and 5.41% respectively, at upper-primary level it was 4.32% for boys and 1.68 for girls, at elementary level it was 5.42% boys and 4.09% girls, at secondary level it was 18.41% boys and 14.59% girls and at higher secondary it was 27.75% for boys and 22.46% for girls.

“It is seen that dropout rate for boys is much higher than girls,” the report stated.

During 2021 result, the passed percentages of female and male students in HSLC were 70.46% and 68.27% respectively.

Participation in economy
The report stated that Census 2011 shows that the workforce participation rate for females is 44.7 % against 53.4 % for males.

Rural sector has a better female workforce participation rate of 52.3% compared to urban sector which has only 25.9%.
It is observed that there is a huge gap in rural and urban female workforce participation, the report stated.

In the categories of workers, it is interesting to note that the percentage of female cultivators (65.2%) and agricultural labourer (7.3%) is more than their counterpart male cultivators (47.4 %) and male agricultural labourer (5.8%).

On the other hand, female has less percentage of workers (24.4%) in other workers category as compared with male which has 45% (As per Census 2011).

Participation in decision making
During 2022, there were seven female District judges as against total of 12 judges, five female junior civil judges as against total of seven judges and two female senior civil judges as against total of five judges in the state.

As per the information provided by the rural development department, there were 2835 numbers of VDB women members and 13 VDB women secretaries in Nagaland during 2021-22.

Mentionably, two women legislators created history in2023 by getting membership to the current 14th House of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly.

Salhoutuonuo Kruse and Hekani Jakhalu, both contesting in the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) party ticket, wonrespective seats in the 2023 State General Elections.

Kruse has been inducted as Minister for Women Resource Development and Horticulture and Jakhalu is Advisor, Industries& Commerce, Government of Nagaland.