Wasted woman power

Wastage of the capacity of women in national and in family life through discrimination against women in employment and education has led to the waste of women as a productive sector of society, leading to a loss of a potentially useful working force. Women may be over qualified for what they are doing, or they may not be employed at all. They may be left illiterate so they cannot contribute to the development of their country.

1. Waste of human resources
2. Underutilization of labour force
3. Underutilization of human resources

1. Unexplored women's skills
2. Underutilized women teachers
3. Sparse female leadership
4. Illiteracy among women
5. Failure to employ skills of home-bound educated women

1. Frustration
2. Failure of development programmes

1. Unrecorded knowledge
2. Underemployment
3. Neglect of the role of women in rural development
4. Misdirection of human energies and desires
5. Incompatibility of traditional and new technologies
6. Inadequate family planning programmes
7. Inadequate child day-care facilities
8. Elimination of the socio-cultural role of western women
9. Discrimination against women in employment
10. Dependency of women in marriage
11. Dependence on unpaid female labour

1. Reducing amount of wasted woman power
2. Improving opportunities for women's self-employment

1. Wastage
2. Power