Economic Reporter :
Women’s contribution to the country’s GDP is 20 percent as 77 to 87 percent of their labour participation in economy and GDP remains unaccounted, according to Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a civil society think tank.
Though the trend in female labour force participation (FLFP) in Bangladesh is increasing and experiencing some ups and downs in the graph, the participation in 2016-17 with the percentage of 36.3 is significantly lower than that of male which is 80.5 per cent, said CPD’s Distinguished Fellow Mustafizur Rahman while presenting the keynote paper on ‘Realising the Demographic Dividend in Bangladesh Promoting Female Labour Force Participation’ at the dialogue.
He said 56.9 percent of the country’s women population with working age is not in education, employment and training (NEET).
“56.9 percent women of the age between 15 and 65+, belong to the NEET category. It’s a matter of concern but also an opportunity if Bangladesh can utilize the potentiality,” said Mustafizur Rahman.
He said between 2013 and 2016-17, female employment in industrial sector has come down by about 850 thousand.
He said 85.1 percent of the total employed people in 2016-17 was in informal employment with the female the share of 91.8 percent, which was higher than male with 82.1 percent.
The CPD fellow said the average real wage decline for male was 1.9 percent and that of female was by 3.8 percent from 2015-16 to 2016-17, while the national real average wages fell by 2.5 percent.
Women’s contribution to the country’s GDP is 20 percent as 77 to 87 percent of their labour participation in economy and GDP remains unaccounted, according to Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a civil society think tank.
Though the trend in female labour force participation (FLFP) in Bangladesh is increasing and experiencing some ups and downs in the graph, the participation in 2016-17 with the percentage of 36.3 is significantly lower than that of male which is 80.5 per cent, said CPD’s Distinguished Fellow Mustafizur Rahman while presenting the keynote paper on ‘Realising the Demographic Dividend in Bangladesh Promoting Female Labour Force Participation’ at the dialogue.
He said 56.9 percent of the country’s women population with working age is not in education, employment and training (NEET).
“56.9 percent women of the age between 15 and 65+, belong to the NEET category. It’s a matter of concern but also an opportunity if Bangladesh can utilize the potentiality,” said Mustafizur Rahman.
He said between 2013 and 2016-17, female employment in industrial sector has come down by about 850 thousand.
He said 85.1 percent of the total employed people in 2016-17 was in informal employment with the female the share of 91.8 percent, which was higher than male with 82.1 percent.
The CPD fellow said the average real wage decline for male was 1.9 percent and that of female was by 3.8 percent from 2015-16 to 2016-17, while the national real average wages fell by 2.5 percent.
