the greatest difference between the lfprs of women and men is in the age group table the next greatest difference is in the age group when women are often engaged in looking after old parents and grandchildren and start withdrawing from the labourforce in order to assess the real impact of marriage and to exclude the impact of age and attendance in educational institutions the lfprs were computed for those in the age group to currently married men cannot afford to remain outside the labour force and thus they have lfprs of about percent in all the three years table