The formal female labor force participation rate is relatively low at 23% , largely due to a high volume of unpaid care work and cultural biases.
An Indian woman’s cuisine is not "Indian food." It is Gujarati (sweet and vegetarian), Bengali (sweet and fish-heavy), Punjabi (butter and rich), or Tamil (rice and tangy). A woman from Kolkata will scoff at the idea of eating Dal Makhani daily, while a woman from Amritsar cannot imagine a meal without a dollop of butter. The formal female labor force participation rate is