Economic costs of gender inequality in health and the labor market: India's untapped potential

Aqeel Khan; Shiraz Khan; Muhammad Azhar Khan; Khalid Zaman; Haroon Ur Rashid Khan; Arieff Salleh Bin Rosman; Yasinta Indrianti; Abidin Ali Hassan

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2023.1067940

Economic costs of gender inequality in health and the labor market: India's untapped potential

Front Public Health. 2023 Jan 30:11:1067940. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1067940. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Aqeel Khan¹, Shiraz Khan², Muhammad Azhar Khan³, Khalid Zaman³, Haroon Ur Rashid Khan⁴, Arieff Salleh Bin Rosman⁵, Yasinta Indrianti⁶, Abidin Ali Hassan⁷

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.
² Department of Management Sciences, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan.
³ Department of Economics, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan.
⁴ Faculty of Business, The University of Wollongong in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
⁵ Center of Research for Fiqh Science and Technology (CFIRST), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.
⁶ Entrepreneurship Department, Podomoro University, Jakarta, Indonesia.
⁷ Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Bahrain, Sakheer, Bahrain.

No abstract available

Keywords: female labor force participation rate; female under-5 mortality; gender equality; precarious employment; seemingly unrelated regression; women's autonomy.

MeSH terms

Gender Equity*
India
Occupations*
Socioeconomic Factors