Senior minister says statistics on unemployed Sri Lankan women are misleading

A senior government minister says that statistics of unemployed women in Sri Lanka do not reflect the proper situation in the country.

Senior Minister for International Economic Affairs Dr. Sarath Amunugama addressing the launch of the Human Development Report 2010 said there were women in Sri Lanka working in the agriculture and paddy cultivation sector and they most often go unaccounted.

He said that Sri Lankan women working in the plantation and garment sectors and as house maids in foreign countries contribute immensely to the economy but they are not given enough credit.

Dr. Amunugama therefore called for qualitative statistics to replace the quantitative ones in order to give the true picture in relation to women and employment in the country.