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Tuesday, August 26, 2025
TopicWorking women

Topic: working women

‘Woman can’t be denied financial support from estranged husband even if she earns,’ says Bombay HC

Dismissing a man's plea challenging court order to pay maintenance to his wife, the high court ruled that woman’s earnings don’t cancel her right to support from estranged husband.

Women’s employment in India up, yet 89 mn urban women remain out of work

Report by Chennai’s Great Lakes Institute of Management, released a day before Women’s Day, analyses data from Labour Surveys, National Family Health Surveys, and Time Use Survey.

Chennai startup finds a solution for ‘overqualified housewives’. No more motherhood penalty

Women brilliant in academics and jobs are forced to sit at home after giving birth. So, 30-yr-old Sankari from Chennai created a platform that provides jobs to women paying 'motherhood penalty'.

More Indian women are joining workforce but gender employment gap is still high, shows new report  

Latest Moody’s Analytics report shows India, Philippines have shown highest decline in gender employment gap since 2019. But the disparity for India is still 4 times that of US, EU.   

Bollywood has barely treated working women well. We need more Zoya Akhtars, Reema Kagtis

The closest commercial Hindi cinema came to positively depicting working women in industry was Yash Chopra’s Kaala Patthar.

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.

How menstrual leaves can make things worse for women

Humans seem to be bad at going beyond surface thoughts and we may even prefer stories that align with rather than challenge gender stereotypes.

What reports on Indian women’s falling participation in labour force don’t tell you

Critics analysing World Bank report to claim continuance of patriarchal oppression and structural barriers fail to acknowledge a critical aspect about women's economic participation in India.

There’s a ‘shecession’, women worry more about jobs, 4x less confident than men: LinkedIn survey

LinkedIn's Workforce Confidence Index found that women are 2x more worried about job availability than men. Also about professional network and time devoted to job seeking.

There’s a hidden ‘pink tax’ on women’s mobility in Mumbai: Study

Researchers from World Bank and Maryland University surveyed over 3,000 households in Greater Mumbai Region and found that improvement in public transit can differentially benefit women.

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Indians should adopt stray dogs. It’s what Hindu value system teaches

Compassion and cohabitation with animals are ingrained in the Indian value system. A humane solution must be found for the rising conflict between man and free-range animals.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

Centre appoints Army ex-vice chief Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani as military adviser to NSC Secretariat

New Delhi: Former Indian Army Vice Chief Lt Gen N.S. Raja Subramani (Retd) has been appointed the new Military Advisor (MA) to the National...

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.