As a country invested in improving women’s workforce participation, India’s cities play a pivotal role in the transformation. Cities can empower working women in several ways by implementing policies, creating supportive environments, and offering resources that enable women to thrive in the workforce.

Top Cities for Women in India is the only kind of study that addresses different inclusivity aspects of cities across two categories, offering insights into strengths and gaps and the effectiveness of policies while encouraging corporate accountability and attracting talent and investment.

Report

About the Report

The Top Cities for Women in India 2024 study creates a City Inclusion Score (CIS) for a list of pre-determined cities (chosen based on the role these cities play in the economic growth of the country). The CIS is a composite of the two pillars, namely:

  1. Social Inclusion Score (SIS) - Social Inclusion Score (SIS) - takes into account the external social environment of including how safe the city is for women, how many women of the city are employed, how good is the quality of life in the city with respect to education, health, housing, water and sanitation, mobility, recreation, etc.
  2. Industry Inclusion Score (IIS) - Industrial Inclusion Score (IIS) - an industrial/business concept and evaluates the extent to which organizations in the city across industries are inclusive of women.

Key Findings

Key Findings

The study covered 120 cities in the country to gauge their inclusivity and conduciveness to working women.
In the 2023 and 2022 study, we covered 113 and 111 cities, respectively.

Unlike the previous editions, this year, we combined the list into a comprehensive one, including both big and small cities.

Rank City State
1
Bengaluru
Karnataka
2
Chennai
Tamil Nadu
3
Mumbai
Maharashtra
4
Hyderabad
Telangana
5
Pune
Maharashtra
6
Kolkata
West Bengal
7
Ahmedabad
Gujarat
8
Delhi
Delhi
9
Gurugram
Haryana
10
Coimbatore
Tamil Nadu
11
Kochi
Kerala
12
Tiruchirappalli
Tamil Nadu
13
Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala