India, Feb. 18 -- The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has been heavily invested in the goal to make India a developed economy by 2047. It is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's developmental and political slogan that he seems to be intensely engaged with. The government's vision has put women as the axis on whose development and participation the required economic growth would be achieved. In fact, the government has said that women will drive India into the club of developed economies.

Why women? The reason is the hard fact that women remain largely absent from India's labour force. Around 60 per cent of working-age women (aged 15-59) are outside the labour force. It is an economic blockage. Studies, including one by Int...