• kanika gupta
• nikita sharma

Women are always considered to be the backbone of any economy as such importance has been given to the principle of gender equality even by our Constitution makers by empowering the state to adopt measures in favour of women for removing cumulative socio-economic and various other disadvantages faced by them. Despites so many initiatives taken by the government to empower women socially, economically, politically etc, women status in our society is far from being satisfactory. There is no dearth of rule and regulations enshrined in the Indian constitution which guarantees equal status for men and women. Yet the ground reality refuses to match the one manifested in the documents and paper work. There is huge gender disparity evident in all spheres of economic and social activities in India and manufacturing sector is no exception to it. The present paper tries to throw light on the exclusion of women in manufacturing sector of India by focussing on women labour force participation in Indian manufacturing sector. The study analyses the trends in women labour force participation in manufacturing sector in comparison to men for the time period 2008-09 to 2014-15 from three aspects viz. overall manufacturing, state wise and industry wise manufacturing industries. The data used to support the evidences has been collected mainly from the Annual Survey of Industries. A huge gap in participation of women and men in the states and industry has been witnessed during the analysis. The study also tries to ascertain various reasons responsible for such high gender disparities in terms of labour force participation in manufacturing industries.

Gender disparity, Social and Economic exclusion, Manufacturing industries, Annual Survey of Industries.

"Participation of women in Indian manufacturing sector: A Trend Analysis", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.479-485, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808070.pdf

"Participation of women in Indian manufacturing sector: A Trend Analysis", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp479-485, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808070.pdf