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Abstract Education and work participation are two most important indicators of economic development in a country. In almost every country in the world, men are more likely to participate in labour markets than women. It was well documented that the educational condition of women has improved in the past few decades but their work participation rate is still low. Here, the paper tried to see reasons behind this difference. There are many determinants of work participation rate but we limit this paper to education. Here, the paper tried to analyse the pattern of spatio-temporal variation and gap in male-female work participation rates and the relationship between work participation rate and female literacy. The co-rrelation co-efficient between improvement does not show significant relation. In addition, it was found that women with low literacy rates are actively engaged in agricultural sector in rural areas. But other than agricultural sector work participation rate of females are less than men in both rural and urban areas. The co-rrelation between work participation rate and sex - ratio is also gives a positive result. But it is not significantly high. Finally, the paper concludes with some general observations and suggestions.