The greatest difference between the LFPRs of women and men is in the 25-34 age group (Table 6-1). The next greatest difference is in the 45-54 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 25-44 age group 25 to 44. Currently married men cannot afford to remain outside the labour force and thus they have LFPRs of about 99 percent in all the three years (Table 6-2).