Year: 2015 | Month: December | Volume 60 | Issue 4

Status of Women in Manipur: A Comparative look

Laxmi Thingbaijam K.K. Das
DOI:10.5958/0976-4666.2015.00108.4

Abstract:

The present study is intended and undertaken in Manipur, a North-Eastern state of India. The study is based on secondary data collected from Census reports. As per the Census 2011, North-Eastern States having 45.59 million population, shares about 3.77% of National figure. The region continued to share about 3.80% of country’s total female population (585.65 million) too. Decadal growth rate (SGR) of female population is slightly above (2.2% during 1991- 2001 and 1.79% during 2001-2011) that of male (2.12% during 1991-2001 and 1.72% during 2001-2011) in India. Similarly growth of female population is outpassing the growth of male population in the Manipur with a clear cut margin (2.56 against 2.34% in 1991-2001 phase, 1.95 against 1.81 during 2001-2011 phase). The state shares about 5.97% of total population and 6.06% of female population of North-East. Share of female worker to the total worker is around 39% in Manipur but in National figure is sometimes less and around 25% over the decades. The percentage of female cultivator (37.9), household industry worker (14.1) and other worker (34.5) in the state are high compare to the national figure.





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