Nearly 44 % Lakshadweep homes are headed by women
29 Dec 2012 7:26 AM IST
The union territory of Lakshadweep, which has to its credit the youngest MP in the Lok Sabha, now has another feather in its cap - it has the largest number of households headed by women in the country.
The Lakshadweep group of islands, off the western coast of India, has 43.7 percent of households headed by women. Kerala, where some communities follow a matriarchal system, comes next with 23 percent homes headed by women. In India, about 27 million households, constituting nearly 11 percent of the total households of the country, are headed by women.
This finding was revealed in a census of ‘Female Headed Households’ as part of findings/results of the first phase of Census 2011 on ‘House Listing and Housing Census’.
There are about 49 lakh single-member female households in the country with three-fourths of them living in rural areas.
In seven states, namely Chattisgarh, MP, TN, Andhra, Maharashtra, Odisha and Gujarat, the proportion of single member female headed household is more than 20 percent.
The proportion of male headed households has declined by 0.6 percent in 2011 compared to 2001 while proportion of female headed households has increased by 0.5 percent in the same period.
The Lakshadweep group of islands, off the western coast of India, has 43.7 percent of households headed by women. Kerala, where some communities follow a matriarchal system, comes next with 23 percent homes headed by women. In India, about 27 million households, constituting nearly 11 percent of the total households of the country, are headed by women.
This finding was revealed in a census of ‘Female Headed Households’ as part of findings/results of the first phase of Census 2011 on ‘House Listing and Housing Census’.
There are about 49 lakh single-member female households in the country with three-fourths of them living in rural areas.
In seven states, namely Chattisgarh, MP, TN, Andhra, Maharashtra, Odisha and Gujarat, the proportion of single member female headed household is more than 20 percent.
The proportion of male headed households has declined by 0.6 percent in 2011 compared to 2001 while proportion of female headed households has increased by 0.5 percent in the same period.
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