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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
TopicIndian women

Topic: Indian women

Women with more socially aware female friends bring up daughters better: World Bank study

Fatima Khan -
Study concludes that women with socially aware friends feed their daughters a more protein-rich diet and give them fewer household chores.

On National Safe Motherhood Day, a look at 5 major pregnancy risks for Indian women

Rahiba R. Parveen -
ThePrint speaks to gynaecologists to look at major risks involved in pregnancy in India and how they can be prevented.

Bears having sex with women: Folklore or fact, it catches the fancy of rural India’s imagination

Radhika Govindrajan -
Anthropologist Radhika Govindrajan explores why tales of bears having sex with women tell us more than just about feminine expressions of desire, in her book 'Animal Intimacies'.

Why Haj 2019 will see twice as many Indian women travel without male guardians

Ifrah Mufti -
After Govt of India changed rules on Saudi lines, over 1,300 women travelled for Haj without a mehram in 2018. This number is set to double next year.

Despite wage increase, number of working women in India fell between 1983 & 2011, says study

Priyamvada Grover -
Since women are perceived  as secondary earners, their willingness to work is negatively affected by the rise in their husbands’ wages, the study says.

The survival rate of a baby girl in India falls when gold prices go up

Sonia Bhalotra -
Dowries impose a considerable tax on girls’ families. In South Asia it is estimated to be six times the average annual household income. 

Muslims’ enrolment in higher education rises by 37%, gender parity also improves

Nikhil Rampal -
Since 2013-14, there has been a steady increase in the number of Muslims in higher education, proportionate to the overall figure.

More younger, educated Indian women are giving birth at unsafe intervals

Vipul Vivek -
In India, spacing between births for women aged 15-29 years worsened from 25 months to 22.5 months over 10 years.

Being a woman is expensive, uncomfortable business. Indra Nooyi can’t fix it with Dorito chips

Harnidh Kaur -
Women have been taught to eat slowly, softly, in smaller bites - a construct of femininity designed to aid the creation of a fragile, waifish woman.
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Opinion

New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

Meenakashi Lekhi -
By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Bangladesh needs change, not old executioners

AI is more likely to cause a labour shortage. Here’s why

Economy

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows rural India is catching up with urban consumers

Udit Bubna -
Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.

Defence

General secrets from frozen peaks: A Kargil veteran reveals what politically correct writers left out

Niyati Kothiyal -
At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war. 

National Interest

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

Shekhar Gupta -
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.

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