Women head 16% of Tamil Nadu households

16 per cent of the households in  Tamil Nadu are headed by women

·     Over 16 per cent of the households in  Tamil Nadu are headed by women, data from Census 2011 recently released by the office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India shows.

 Higher than national level 

·        The percentage of households headed by women in the State is higher than the 13.17 per cent reported at the national level, where 3.27 crore of the total 24.88 crore households are headed by women. In Tamil Nadu, 29 lakh of the 18.47 crore households are headed by women.

Rural & Urban households

·        At 16.65 lakh, rural areas have more households headed by women compared to urban areas (12.99 lakh). Women also head about 8,600 households in the State, where there are at least 11 persons or more in each of the households.

The fairer sex 

·        The fairer sex also heads 1.10 lakh households with seven to 10 members and 14.33 lakh households with three to six members.

 Among various religious groups

·       Among various religious groups, more percentage of Muslim women are heading households than women from other faiths. Over 18 per cent of Muslim households in the State are headed by women followed by Hindu women (15.82 per cent) and Christian women (8.14 per cent), the data on households by religion, sex of the head of the household and its size reveals.

source: The Hindu