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Women’s Economic Empowerment Index
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Context:
Uttar Pradesh launched India’s first Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Index to track women’s participation across multiple economic levers.
Present Status and Gaps
- Low GDP Contribution: Women contribute only 18% to India’s GDP, despite constituting half the population.
- Workforce Exclusion: Nearly 196 million employable women remain outside the labour force.
- Formal Employment Gap: Of the 41.7% women in the workforce, only 18% are in formal jobs, showing structural exclusion.
Role of WEE Index
- Comprehensive Tracking: Index measures women’s status across employment, education & skilling, entrepreneurship, livelihood, mobility, and safety.
- Catalytic Impact: Gender-disaggregated data has already prompted reforms in Uttar Pradesh’s transport sector such as women’s recruitment and infrastructure facilities.
- Systematic Insights: Helps map drop-off points from school to skilling, and skilling to entrepreneurship, exposing barriers to credit and enterprise support.
Future Imperatives
- Data Mainstreaming: Gender-disaggregated data must be integrated into all departmental management systems at district and state levels.
- Beyond Gender Budgeting: True gender budgeting should apply a gender lens to every rupee spent, not just welfare schemes.
- Scaling Framework: Other states with trillion-dollar economic goals must replicate WEE Index to harness the gender dividend.
Practice Question
“Gender-disaggregated data is the foundation for inclusive growth. Discuss how tools like the Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Index can address India’s gender gap and contribute to achieving its $30 trillion economy vision by 2047.” (250 words)
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