The Delhi authorities’s newest statistical report on gender indicators revealed a stark contradiction for ladies: regardless of good points in well being and enhancing participation in increased training, their entry into the workforce stays severely low, at the same time as crime in opposition to them persists at alarming charges.
The findings type the core of “Girls & Males in Delhi – 2025,” a statistical publication launched by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, constructed largely on secondary datasets.
Citing Periodic Labour Drive Survey (2017-18 to 2023-24) information, the report underscores that ladies’s presence within the workforce stays “severely low.”
“Employee-Inhabitants Ratio (WPR) in Delhi stood at 14.2% for ladies in 2023-24 in comparison with 52.8% for males. Labour Drive Participation Price (LFPR) was 14.5% for ladies and 54% for males throughout the identical interval,” the report states.
The report cited UDISE PLUS, ministry of training information to point out that feminine academics dominate Delhi’s training panorama, and their numbers have grown. On the main degree, the variety of feminine academics per 100 male academics elevated from 363 in 2012-13 to 415 in 2024-25. The pattern holds at higher main, the place the ratio rose from 214 to 261, and at increased secondary, the place it climbed from 152 to 168.
Girls’s enrolment in increased training touched 50.57% in 2023-24, up from 49.08% the earlier yr, in response to NSS information cited within the report.
As per PLFS information, employment patterns spotlight structural gaps. In 2023-24, a majority of working girls – 70.2% – had been in common wage or salaried roles. Against this, solely 26.4% had been self-employed, in contrast with 40.3% of males. Greater than 61% of girls employees had been employed within the broad “different providers” class, adopted by manufacturing (16.68%) and commerce, lodge and restaurant providers (12.2%).
The report cited Nationwide Household Well being Survey (NFHS) information to focus on enhancements in girls’s well being outcomes. Feminine life expectancy throughout 2016-20 was 76.2 years – greater than three years increased than that of males at 73 years. Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), in the meantime, fell from 0.55 in 2019 to 0.44 in 2024. Institutional births rose from 84.4% in 2015-16 to 91.8% in 2019-21, and post-natal care protection elevated from 62.3% to 85.4% throughout the identical interval. Anaemia amongst girls aged 15-49 dropped from 54.3% to 49.9%.
It additionally cited Census and NSS datato file an increase in literacy ranges: in rural Delhi, literacy amongst individuals aged seven and above rose from 93.8% to 96.3% between 2014 and 2017-18, whereas city literacy elevated from 89.8% to 92%. Delhi’s general literacy price stood at 86.21% within the 2011 Census.
In political participation,the report cited election outcomes from ECI and famous that through the 2025 Delhi Meeting elections, there have been 7.24 million registered feminine electors out of a complete of over 15.6 million electors. Nonetheless, the variety of elected girls MLAs fell from eight in 2020 to 5 in 2025. Within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Delhi, girls illustration improved from one MP in 2019 to 2 in 2024.
“Knowledge from Nationwide Crime Information Bureau (NCRB) exhibits the speed of crimes in opposition to girls in Delhi was 133.60 per 100,000 in 2023, greater than double the nationwide common of 62.20. Cruelty by husband and his family members accounted for the very best share amongst such crimes,” the report added.
The energy of girls personnel within the Delhi Police elevated from 12,461 in 2023 to 13,220 in 2024, in response to Bureau of Police Analysis and Growth.
