Ashish Sedai on Water, Electricity and Female Labor Force Participation
Ideas of India
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Access to Electricity at the Local Level Can Increase Women's Employment
Having reliable electricity might also reduce the time taken o a lot of domestic cares. There is very strong demand pull with electrification at the local level in india. Not only for women's employment, but overall, for even men's employment. To that extent, it can kind of increased productivity for employment at the locallevel. For instance, you could run mills, i mean, the mills that run in rural india,. most of the mills, the rice mills, or the other kinds of mills. You know, these have a longom productivity effect when you have access to electricity.
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