50% of Indian women stay home or get married by 22; 3 of 4 men head to work

India's female labour force participation rate, at 24%, was below the world average of 39% in 2016, according to World Bank data

While three out of four men headed to work, about one in two women stayed at home by age 22 in undivided Andhra Pradesh, according to the preliminary findings (here, here and here) of an ongoing global longitudinal study of childhood poverty.

Not only were fewer women training themselves for the labour market, far more women were married by age 22 in 2016 than men, according to research by Young Lives India–the India chapter of Young Lives, a study of childhood poverty