it seems that women with no education are pushed into the labour force due to economic compulsions while those with low levels of education are constrained by social inhibitions against labour force participation particularly outside their homes a comparatively low percentage of women with secondary higher secondary and higher levels of education were in the category of attending to domestic duties as they seek to enter the labour market nevertheless more than per cent of women had this activity status at all levels of education in this indicates that women in the lowest deciles are compelled to enter the labour force more often than others