Just around 25% of India's workforce is female, says McKinsey report

The report suggests India in the longer term needs to create far more jobs in the formal organised sector -- 97 per cent of all female worker activity is in the informal sector

Just around 25 per cent of India’s workforce is female, according to a recent report by consultants McKinsey & Company on the advancing of women’s equality in the Asia-Pacific region. 

A 10 per cent increase to that, it says, could add $770 billion to the country’s Gross Domestic Product in the next seven years.

Primary factors driving the male-female gap include gender inequality at work and in society. Physical security and autonomy, legal protection, political voice and women’s role in essential services are all areas where India’s statistics lag in comparison.

For instance, says the report, violence against women in India is six