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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
TopicWomen workforce

Topic: Women workforce

Women form about one-fifth of India’s digital workforce, leadership roles a rarity, says LEAD report

The report released at Charcha 2025, an annual gathering of India’s social development sector, found that women remain largely concentrated in low-value and routine roles.

Global gender gap narrows to 68.8% but full parity 123 yrs away, finds World Economic Forum report

WEF's Global Gender Gap Report 2025 shows Iceland remains global leader in gender equality for 16th consecutive yr at 92.6%. India among lowest-ranked countries in South Asia.

Global media on how more women in workforce could drive India’s growth story & a cheesy revolution

India’s clothes exports also feature in international news, as do the factors holding the country back. It also looks at govt's Leprosy Mukt Bharat campaign & its ambitious target of 2027.

Indian women missing from climate change action. $5 trillion goal is impossible without them

A panel discussion, ‘Women as Agents of Climate Action’, at the German Embassy was a plea and a battle cry to engage more women in government, boardrooms and at the grassroots level.

EPFO data shows a surge in new members, with majority in the 18-25 age group

The data further states that about 12.17 lakh members left EPFO and subsequently rejoined the organization.

Why Tamil Nadu’s women make up nearly half of India’s female factory workforce

With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.

Ride-hailing apps are helping women join the workforce & ‘juggle work-life responsibilities’

Survey by Oxford Economics, in partnership with Uber, shows three-quarters of women surveyed, who use ride-hailing apps to travel to work, do so because it offers a safer commute than other options.

Less than 1 in every 5 startups in India was led by a woman in 2022 — still much higher than in 2017

Report by non-profit ACT shows women-led startups were 10% of total in 2017, rose to 18% by 2022. Adds that women founders are more likely to address issues faced by female employees.

Most companies in India are too small. This is limiting women’s employment

India's female labour force participation rate remained stubbornly low and stagnant 30-32 percent during the 1990-2005 and witnessed a decline thereafter.

Is WFH solution to India’s low female labour participation? Not really, says economist

New Delhi: Could remote working be the solution to one of India’s most persistent problems — its abysmally low female workforce participation? The question,...

On Camera

India-Pakistan is ready for lehenga diplomacy. Maryam Sharif has made the first move

Sometimes, we end up embroidering the truth as we overthink and overanalyse a fastidious lady’s personal wardrobe preferences for significant occasions.

India & EU announce “mother of all trade deals”. This is why it matters

Two sides also announce signing of a Security & Defence Partnership, launch negotiations for an intelligence sharing agreement & explore India’s addition to Horizon Europe programme.

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.