India has made progress by introducing third gender category, says EU diplomat
In the backdrop of the attack on a night club in Orlando last Saturday in which 49 people were killed, the American Center Friday hosted […]
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History created: India’s first batch of women fighter pilots commissioned
HYDERABAD: Creating history, Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh today became the first women fighter pilots to be formally commissioned by the Indian Air […]
Gender imbalance management in Jharkhand’s police stations
Ranchi: The district police on Thursday got 32 policewomen as ‘munshi’ (police clerks) to serve in city’s police stations where the gender inequality of society […]
India still plagued by wide gender gap
MUMBAI — Indian women earned just 25% as much as their male counterparts in 2015 even after a near-doubling of their wages over six years, revealing […]
Gender disparities make women take a detour from engineering
Women who go to college intending to become engineers stay in the profession less often than men, as a result of gender disparities faced by […]
UP tops with highest number women workforce
Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of rural and urbanwomen workforce at 13.6 million and 2.4 million respectively. Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of […]
Govt working towards two gender justice laws
New Delhi: The last two weeks have seen the women and child development (WCD) ministry propose two key laws aimed at redefining gender justice—the draft […]
Odisha becomes first state to include transgenders in BPL category
Odisha has become the first state in India to include the transgender community in the category of below poverty line (BPL) beneficiaries. The decision is […]
Bridging India’s digital gender divide
Indumati Mahato, from West Bengal’s Purulia district, has discovered a whole new world thanks to the Internet. Taking the help of an initiative titled Internet […]
India struggles to keep women at work
India has experienced stable economic growth in recent years. However, fewer and fewer women are participating in the labour market. Out of India’s female working […]