{"id":926171,"date":"2025-04-29T08:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T02:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=926171"},"modified":"2025-04-29T08:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T02:49:29","slug":"womens-participation-in-workforce-up-23-y-o-y-in-q1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/29\/womens-participation-in-workforce-up-23-y-o-y-in-q1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s participation in workforce up 23% y-o-y in Q1 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Driven by flexible work options, greater focus on gender diversity and more opportunities in sectors like BPO, finance and HR, women&#8217;s participation in the country&#8217;s workforce saw a 23% year-on-year (y-o-y) increase in the first quarter of 2025. Of the total 1.81 crore job applications, over 62 lakh came from women, and the shift was felt across the spectrum\u2014freshers, mothers re-entering the workforce, and career switchers all contributed, according to Apna\u2019s latest &#8216;India at Work \u2013 Quarter (Q1) 2025&#8217; report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Driven by flexible work options, greater focus on gender diversity and more opportunities in sectors like BPO, finance and HR, women&#8217;s participation in the country&#8217;s workforce saw a 23% year-on-year (y-o-y) increase in the first quarter of 2025. Of the total 1.81 crore job applications, over 62 lakh came from women, and the shift was felt across the spectrum\u2014freshers, mothers re-entering the workforce, and career switchers all contributed, according to Apna\u2019s latest &#8216;India at Work \u2013 Quarter (Q1) 2025&#8217; report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}