Women bought 32% of life insurance policies in 2017-18, shows Irdai data

- Participation of women in the Indian workforce declined to 27.21% in 2017 from the peak of 36.78% in 2005, says ILO data
- The total number of individual life insurance policies issued in 2017-18 was 28.2 million, of which about 9 million were bought by women and 19.1 million by men