Woman empowerment is the key to ensure that India successfully reduces the existing unmet need among its women and achieves its goal of population stabilisation soon. India has had one of the largest and longest running family planning programmes in the world. Yet we are unable to meet the contraceptive needs of our people, which …
Will the workplace of the future be a model for gender parity, with women enjoying equal prospects to men in terms of seniority and salary? Or will it be or a worse proposition than the one women face today, where their levels of pay and ability to climb the career ladder remain limited? Historical trends …
We have a chance to build the gender-equal workplaces of the future. Here’s how Read More »
Indian women earn 19 per cent less than men, a survey said. Women in India earn 19% less than men, reflecting the high gender pay gap in the country, according to the latest Monster Salary Index survey released on Thursday. The gap has narrowed merely by 1% in 2018 from 20% a year ago. The …
Gender pay gap high in India: Men get paid Rs 242 every hour, women earn Rs 46 less Read More »
“It is relatively harder for Indian women to become researchers but inside research, there are less differences about the topics that they choose to investigate.” For every female first author of a research paper in India, there are almost three male first authors. A recent study by scholars from India and the UK has found …
Gender Inequality Uniformly High in Indian Academic Publishing Read More »
In India, the unpaid work done by women looking after their homes and children is worth 3.1 per cent of the country’s GDP. Women spend 312 minutes per day in urban areas and 291 minutes per day in rural areas on such unpaid care work, said the report. Unpaid work done by women across the …
Unpaid work done by women worth 43-times Apple’s annual turnover: Report Read More »
