The percentage of female workforce in the rural areas is nearly 30% while it is only 14% in the urban areas. The data shows that rural women are more working than urban women. This is because:

• Rural women are more insecure and poor than urban women due to bigger size of family and lesser source of income.
• As in the agricultural and allied activities, high degree of skills and specialisations is not required, so, rural women engage themselves to support their family on farms.
• Female literacy in India is improving, yet it has to get much better before urban female accounts for higher share in the total female workforce.