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.
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.
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.
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.
With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.
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.
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.
India's female labour force participation rate remained stubbornly low and stagnant 30-32 percent during the 1990-2005 and witnessed a decline thereafter.
New Delhi: Could remote working be the solution to one of India’s most persistent problems — its abysmally low female workforce participation? The question,...
Less than a year before the First Constitutional Amendment, Patel wrote to Nehru about Supreme Court rulings that had 'knocked the bottom out' of press control laws.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
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