Question

How does education affect women's and men's labor force participation?

Answer 1

Education plays an important role in female and male labour force participation .As we know women in all around the world have low labour participation as compared to men . This increases the gender disparity .Below are the effects of education on female and male labour participation

• The first thing it does is that it develops women for job and employment opportunities .It acts as a vital tool to decrease the gender disparity and the wage gap .
• It empowers women to become more financially independent .As we know gender roles in our society keeps the women restricted to unpaid home labour work . For men it helps to get the high paying primary sector jobs .
• It makes women less vulnerable as they get socially and politically activated and also a financial source makes them more stable . And they get involved in organised labour .
• It develops skills and necessary qualifications for women which is required by the employers in the market .
• Most men get skill and vocational training from various education institutions and enter the primary job sector . But the ratio of vocational training and skill development of women as compared to men is very low most of the time women and in secondary and tertiary sector jobs .
• Education helps both men and women to get out of the less paid and unorganized sector to work in the formal sector .

All the above mentioned things help in increasing the labour force participation for both men and women.