{"id":31807,"date":"2025-04-07T09:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T03:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31807"},"modified":"2025-04-16T14:57:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:27:48","slug":"women-men-in-india-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/women-men-in-india-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and Men in India 2024: Selected Indicators and Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Women and Men in India 2024: Selected Indicators and Data Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Government of India, recently released the 26th edition of its publication titled \u201cWomen and Men in India 2024: Selected Indicators and Data\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>About Women and Men in India 2024: Selected Indicators and Data<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was published by the <strong>Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation<\/strong> (MoSPI), Government of India.<\/li>\n<li>It offers a comprehensive <strong>overview of the gender landscape in India,<\/strong> presenting selected indicators and data across key areas like population, education, health, economic participation, and decision-making, all sourced from various Ministries\/ Departments\/Organizations.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Utilizing official statistics<\/strong>, it presents gender-disaggregated data across urban-rural divides and geographic regions, facilitating a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by women and men.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Highlights of the Women and Men in India 2024: Selected Indicators and Data\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gender Parity Index <\/strong>(GPI) <strong>for enrolments a<\/strong>t the <strong>primary and higher secondary was higher in FY24<\/strong> than in FY23 and FY22, meaning more girls are being enrolled now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>At upper primary and elementary level<\/strong>s, the<strong> enrolment numbers<\/strong> were more or less the <strong>same for boys and girls.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Labour Force Participation Rate<\/strong> (LFPR) for women aged 15 and above improved significantly, <strong>rising from 49.8% in 2017-18 to 60.1% in 2023-24.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the financial sector, <strong>women own 39.2% of all bank accounts<\/strong> and contribute to <strong>39.7% of total deposits<\/strong>, with their presence <strong>most prominent in rural areas<\/strong>, where they account for <strong>42.2% of account holders.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Female participation in the capital market is also growing,<\/strong> but overall numbers are small.<\/li>\n<li>Between March 2021 and November 2024, the number of DEMAT accounts surged from 33.26 million to 143.02 million. Of these, the <strong>number of women account holders rose<\/strong> from 6.67 million in 2021 <strong>to 27.71 million in 2024.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A Rising percentage of female-headed proprietary establishments<\/strong> across manufacturing, trade, and other services sectors over the years 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24 has been observed.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>number of male and female voters grew<\/strong> from 173.2 million in 1952 to 978 million in 2024, <strong>with an increasing share of females.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In the 2024 general elections, female voter turnout (65.8%) surpassed male turnout,<\/strong> even as it dipped slightly from 67.2% in 2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Female entrepreneurship is also on the rise.<\/strong> The number of startups recognized by DPIIT with at least one woman director rose sharply from 1,943 in 2017 to 17,405 in 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Women and Men in India 2024: Selected Indicators and Data FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Which ministry publishes the \u2018Women and Men in India 2024: Selected Indicators and Data\u2019 report?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What percentage of all bank accounts in India are owned by women, as per the 2024 data?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 39.2%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. In the 2024 general elections, what was the female voter turnout?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 65.8%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=2119441&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women and Men in India 2024: Selected Indicators and Data was published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}