Directions: Some words have been left out in the following passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives:

The Labour force participation rate (LFPR) of women in India was just 25 per cent in 2021, a new report showed. It is considerably [1] __________  than Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa, it added citing the latest World Bank estimates. LFPR of women was 42.7 per cent in 2004-05, and the [2] __________  decline indicates the withdrawal of women from the workforce despite rapid economic growth during the same period, according to the analysis by non-profit Oxfam India. The low participation was largely due to gender discrimination in wages and opportunities, the organisation said in the report released September 15, 2022. [3] __________  are lower for women 83 per cent because of discrimination and 17 per cent due to lack of education and work [4] __________ , it observed. The Indian government will have to offer [5] __________  for better pay, training, skills [6] __________  and job quotas to prospective employers to encourage the hiring of women to close the gender gap, Oxfam India suggested. “If a man and woman starts on an equal footing, the woman will be discriminated against in the economic sphere where she will lag behind in regular / salaried, casual and self-employment,” the organisation observed in India Discrimination Report 2022. The findings were based on extensive analysis of government data from 2004-2020 to understand the [7] __________  and discrimination when it comes to access to jobs, income, health and agricultural credits across the country, Oxfam said. It added: There have been very limited attempts made to measure the extent of discrimination and its impact on the lives of [8] __________  communities in India so far. There have been even fewer attempts to quantify discrimination through rigorous research methods and credible data. The inequality in the labour market for gender and other social categories, the report finds, is not just due to poor access to [9] __________  or work experience but because of discrimination, Amitabh Behar, CEO of Oxfam India, said in a press statement on the [10] __________  of the release.