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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicWomen workers

Topic: Women workers

Tobacco, textile and apparel manufacturing — women overrepresented in low-paying jobs

Only 25% of India's informal workforce are women, and they largely have low-quality jobs, but leadership patterns emerge on a deeper look at the government's annual survey data. 

How unfair, low-wage jobs at electronics factories helped women escape abusive families

In ‘The Many Lives of Syeda X’, Neha Dixit chronicles the life of Syeda, a Muslim migrant worker, and the people in her life.

Labour ministry takes note of Reuters investigation into Foxconn, asks for report from TN government

Foxconn explicitly does not hire married women, with job advertisements targeted solely at unmarried women, the Reuters investigation has revealed.

Do harassment and abuse harm poor women less? US research finds ‘thicker skin’ bias

Both low- and high-income study participants shared this pattern of judgment – as did male and female participants.

Rising women’s participation in workforce likely led by distress not economic growth, says study

Self-employment among women was up 14 percentage points to nearly 65% between the quarter ended June 2018 and the quarter ended December 2022, according to the report.

Jharkhand girls leave home for English, movies, city life. Then they face India’s urban rich

Police search trains at Ranchi station for young girls. But their hands are tied. 'If we verify they are going with their parents’ consent, then we have no mandate to stop them.'

Phones seized, abused, hit: What women in Karnataka & Tamil Nadu’s garment factories endure

Kavita Krishnan writes in her book 'Fearless Freedom' about how 'culture’, ‘safety' & 'love jihad' are cited to justify women's harassment in these factories.

On Camera

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Doctor-led terror module behind Delhi blast was in phase 2 of ops, planned serial bombings in December

While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.