Options for self-employment are also provided. Other project activities include job placement assistance, training for placement officers and vocational guidance officers, and transportation of trainees. The project has trained 600 women. Large companies have shown flexibility and willingness to employ women in nontraditional jobs. Obstacles to gender equality in training and employment are inadequate and ineffective implementation of existing policies and women's lack of awareness of training opportunities and rights.
Women continue to get lower pay due to employment in lower-skill job categories.
Rural women remain invisible farmers who tend to be displaced by mechanization and very limited access to credit, agricultural services, training, and technology. Employed women suffer from business retrenchment and shutdowns in the manufacturing sector.