The article summaries that women’s education levels in India are rising and, along with it, the age of marriage. However, after completing higher education, but before a woman establishes herself in paid work, most women get married. In effect, higher education leads to a delay in age at marriage by 2-3 years and improves the marriage prospects for women, not their employment prospects.

Being in paid work for a sufficient duration before marriage seems vital to raise women's employment in India. Also, skills and autonomy gained through job experience will ease their re-entry into work later. Of course, providing affordable and quality childcare would undoubtedly lower the drop in women’s employment rates due to childbirth in urban areas.

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