85% women have missed out on a raise, job during pandemic
3 years, 9 months ago

85% women have missed out on a raise, job during pandemic

Live Mint  

Despite the increase in discussion and commitment towards diversity and inclusion by India Inc., 85% women believe they were overlooked for a raise, promotion or job offer because of their gender last year. In fact, two-thirds of working women and working mothers felt discriminated against at work because of family and household responsibilities they undertook, the report highlights. As women have a to negotiate lot of societal expectations as well, 56% women and working mothers want their organisations to offer flexible work schedules, with 56% wanting robust maternity leaves and policies. “Gender inequality at work, and added domestic responsibilities amid the pandemic have collectively made women’s jobs more vulnerable at this time.

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Women Scientists in India Exit STEM Careers Despite High PhD Numbers as Gender Gap Widens in Academia
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Women Scientists in India Exit STEM Careers Despite High PhD Numbers as Gender Gap Widens in Academia

The Hindu  

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What's behind the widening gender wage gap?
2 months, 1 week ago

What's behind the widening gender wage gap?

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Although women who lost or left their jobs …

Liberating Women: CJI DY Chandrachud says, 'breaking patriarchal barriers leads to achievement & innovation'
3 months, 1 week ago

Liberating Women: CJI DY Chandrachud says, 'breaking patriarchal barriers leads to achievement & innovation'

Firstpost  

Delivering a keynote address at CNN News18 SheShakti 2024, CJI DY Chandrachud said that talking about women’s rights is ’not a woman’s thing, but it’s about all of us to engage in serious conversation' “Once you liberate women from the network of patriarchal social attitudes and provide to them a level playing field on the basis of equality of opportunity, …

New Book Details the Suffering of Women Workers in Informal Sector During COVID
4 months ago

New Book Details the Suffering of Women Workers in Informal Sector During COVID

The Quint  

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Women in Corporate Jobs Love Challenging Projects But Face Challenges After Maternity Leave: Aon
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Women in Corporate Jobs Love Challenging Projects But Face Challenges After Maternity Leave: Aon

Deccan Chronicle  

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World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report 2024: 134 Years to Parity, India Ranks 129th
6 months ago

World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report 2024: 134 Years to Parity, India Ranks 129th

The Hindu  

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Reshaping gender roles in India: Improving women’s economic outcomes
6 months, 1 week ago

Reshaping gender roles in India: Improving women’s economic outcomes

Hindustan Times  

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Employers In India Actively Promoting Gender Parity In Offices, IT Sector Most Diverse: Survey
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Employers In India Actively Promoting Gender Parity In Offices, IT Sector Most Diverse: Survey

ABP News  

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Lifting the burden keeping Indian women from work
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Lifting the burden keeping Indian women from work

New Indian Express  

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9 months, 1 week ago

Debunking myths about women and the workplace

Live Mint  

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The determinant in more women in the job market
9 months, 2 weeks ago

The determinant in more women in the job market

The Hindu  

There is growing demand from social scientists, governments and international organisations, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, that women’s participation in the economy/labour market should increase to promote economic growth of India. Consequently, they overcrowd in stereotyped low productivity jobs and lag behind men in all average labour market outcomes such as participation, wages, and diversification …

Flight to equality: charting a course for women in aviation sector
10 months, 1 week ago

Flight to equality: charting a course for women in aviation sector

The Hindu  

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Women are losing out to men in India’s jobless growth
1 year ago

Women are losing out to men in India’s jobless growth

Live Mint  

The share of women in regular salaried jobs in urban India dropped from 54% in the first quarter to 52.8% in the second quarter, according to quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey data, Business Standard reported. Since salaried workers receive regular wages, that type of work is preferred to casual work or self-employment, which also includes working as unpaid household help …

Burden of care work: Gender's impact on the wage gap
1 year, 2 months ago

Burden of care work: Gender's impact on the wage gap

Hindustan Times  

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For an equal future, G20’s gender vision
1 year, 3 months ago

For an equal future, G20’s gender vision

Hindustan Times  

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Women's employment hangs by a thread
1 year, 3 months ago

Women's employment hangs by a thread

BBC  

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Closing the gender pay gap: Strategies for equality in the workplace
1 year, 3 months ago

Closing the gender pay gap: Strategies for equality in the workplace

Hindustan Times  

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Are women paying the price as work shifts back to office space?
1 year, 5 months ago

Are women paying the price as work shifts back to office space?

The Hindu  

In May this year, Susheela Pavate, 41, quit her high-paying tech job after a disagreement with her line manager about mandatorily reporting to the office four days a week. “After three years of working from home, I found the switch tough, along with the long commute to work,” says the mother of two. “There might be other reasons, but intuitively, …

Bridging the gap: On India and Gender Gap Report
1 year, 6 months ago

Bridging the gap: On India and Gender Gap Report

The Hindu  

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Women can benefit in a big way from care services sector, says Smriti Irani
1 year, 6 months ago

Women can benefit in a big way from care services sector, says Smriti Irani

The Hindu  

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Eliminating gender-based violence helps build economies
1 year, 9 months ago

Eliminating gender-based violence helps build economies

Hindustan Times  

Gender-based violence is all around us. Gender-based violence thwarts economic health by depriving women of work opportunities and access to education, and forces absence from the labor force. The Covid-19 pandemic spurred international attention around both gender-based violence and women’s economic losses, but the scrutiny was fleeting. This opportunity gap presented a clear pathway for action when, in 2021, the …

Analysis | As India's population booms, where are its working women?
1 year, 9 months ago

Analysis | As India's population booms, where are its working women?

The Hindu  

Pinky Negi, an Indian teacher with two master's degrees, loved her old job at a public school in the Himalayan foothills. Less than a third of Indian women are working or actively seeking work, data shows, despite progress such as better educational attainment, improved health, falling fertility rates and more women-friendly labour policies. Policy changes that could rectify these problems …

Unequal relationships continue to affect women’s careers, independence
1 year, 9 months ago

Unequal relationships continue to affect women’s careers, independence

Live Mint  

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Women’s work is not valued properly: Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh
1 year, 9 months ago

Women’s work is not valued properly: Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh

The Hindu  

In her 2022 book, The Making of a Catastrophe, on the disastrous economic fallout of COVID-19, Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh writes that job losses and food insecurity were significantly higher for women. India is among one of the few countries that did not even achieve the MDGs for maternal health, and since then the pandemic has dramatically worsened the …

Gender gap at work far worse than expected: UN
1 year, 9 months ago

Gender gap at work far worse than expected: UN

Firstpost  

According to new ILO data, 15 percent of working-age women globally would like to work, but do not have a job, compared to 10.5 percent of men Geneva: Women have a harder time accessing work globally than previously thought, while the gender gap in working conditions and pay has barely budged in two decades, the United Nations said Monday. The …

Gender gap at work far worse than expected: United Nations
1 year, 9 months ago

Gender gap at work far worse than expected: United Nations

The Hindu  

Women have a harder time accessing work globally than previously thought, while the gender gap in working conditions and pay has barely budged in two decades, the United Nations said on March 6. The UN's International Labour Organisation said it had developed a new indicator that does a better job than official unemployment rates at capturing all people without employment …

The problem confronting women of colour
1 year, 9 months ago

The problem confronting women of colour

BBC  

The perfect storm keeping women of colour behind at work Getty Images Effects from the pandemic have set back many workers. Now, as the effects of the past several years begin to crystallise, researchers stress it’s important to acknowledge that women of colour in the paid labour market have been disproportionately affected by a perfect storm of economic and societal …

Why women get fewer jobs and earn lesser wages than men in India
1 year, 9 months ago

Why women get fewer jobs and earn lesser wages than men in India

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 27, 2023 12:39 IST Following the announcement by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in October last year of equal pay for all men and women Team India cricketers, the highest bid received by a cricketer in the inaugural Women’s Premier League is being celebrated as a watershed moment, not just in India but globally. …

Addressing gender inequalities: India needs bold steps
1 year, 10 months ago

Addressing gender inequalities: India needs bold steps

Hindustan Times  

India, which assumed presidency of G20 this year, has stated that it will prioritise inclusive growth and development, with women empowerment and representation at the forefront of its G20 discussions. This indeed is a desirable objective, given the large gender inequalities that exist in several G20 member countries, especially in India, which also gets reflected in its overall human development …

Many Can Learn from India's Health Systems; Put Women in Positions of Power: Melinda Gates to News18 - News18
2 years ago

Many Can Learn from India's Health Systems; Put Women in Positions of Power: Melinda Gates to News18 - News18

News 18  

Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is on a visit to India. In an exclusive interview with CNN-News18 on Tuesday, she spoke at length about India’s Covid vaccination model, its digital strides, hosting G20, putting women in positions of power, and areas that need improvement. All talked about how people around them see them differently …

When the workplace is your respite
2 years ago

When the workplace is your respite

Live Mint  

For Jesintha Devaraj, 27, a PhD scholar of translation studies at the University of Hyderabad, working from home proved to be game-changing. Of course, many working Indian women had already been doing the “double shift”, working at their day job and then managing household affairs, mainly single-handedly, long before the pandemic. Your workplace becomes just yours—a space and niche to …

Why India can’t afford women staying out of labour market
2 years, 1 month ago

Why India can’t afford women staying out of labour market

Live Mint  

Separately, Oxfam India’s India Discrimination Report 2022 revealed that wages are lower for women overwhelmingly because of discriminatory practices and only slightly due to lack of education and work experience. Besides, a significant number of qualified women were found unwilling to join the labour market due to ‘family responsibilities’, said the report. A recent Bloomberg Economics analysis estimated that though …

How Crimes Against Women Deter Female Workforce From Stepping Out For Work
2 years, 3 months ago

How Crimes Against Women Deter Female Workforce From Stepping Out For Work

News 18  

Recently, PM Narendra Modi exhorted the importance of having a flexible, work-from-home ecosystem that would immensely boost women’s participation in India’s labor force. This, is despite recent data from the National Crime Records Bureau, reporting a steady decline in India’s total crime rate, which fell by 7.6% to 61 lakhs last year. This means that the crime rate per lakh …

WFH: Can it add more Indian women to the workforce?
2 years, 3 months ago

WFH: Can it add more Indian women to the workforce?

Business Standard  

One of the five pledges that Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed Indians to adopt during his Independence Day speech was equality, specifically equality for women. Modi’s remarks assume significance as India has one of the world’s lowest female labour force participation rate, or LFPR. Having said that, the International Labour Organization, or ILO found that a significant proportion of women …

As PM Backs 'Nari Shakti' on I-Day, Female Industry Leaders Speak on Gender Gap, The Change
2 years, 4 months ago

As PM Backs 'Nari Shakti' on I-Day, Female Industry Leaders Speak on Gender Gap, The Change

News 18  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the nation on the 75th anniversary of India’s independence from the Red Fort on Monday underscored that empowering women is crucial for the growth of the country, which is currently in the decade of digital revolution and innovations. As per Rawat, the gender divide starts with “culture, outlook and Indian value system of looking …

Indian women outdo men in taking the entrepreneurial plunge during pandemic
2 years, 5 months ago

Indian women outdo men in taking the entrepreneurial plunge during pandemic

The Hindu  

Here is a rosy picture. We saw this especially in the years of the pandemic, when women sheltered from a shrinking job market by starting their own businesses that also created opportunities for other women,” says Ruchee Anand, senior director, India Talent & Learning Solutions, LinkedIn, while interpreting the numbers. Managerial level Apart from being under represented in leadership roles, …

Time to end systemic misogyny reflected in the gender pay gap
2 years, 6 months ago

Time to end systemic misogyny reflected in the gender pay gap

Live Mint  

In a pre-pandemic world, UN Women alerted us that “women only make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men", resulting in lifelong income inequality. The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021 aired pessimism, saying that the gender pay gap is likely to further widen by 5%. As the pandemic aggravated existing gender inequalities, PayScale’s State of the …

Trillions at stake as Indian women disappear from workforce
2 years, 6 months ago

Trillions at stake as Indian women disappear from workforce

Deccan Chronicle  

For years, Sanchuri Bhuniya fought her parents’ pleas to settle down. Increased domestic duties, lack of childcare options after school shutdowns, and a surge in marriages — which often confine women’s autonomy in India — help explain the difference in outcome. They can’t negotiate the labor market as effectively as men do.” Dreams of freedom or a well-paid office job …

How to ensure more women in the workforce
2 years, 7 months ago

How to ensure more women in the workforce

Hindustan Times  

India aims to become a $5-trillion economy by 2025. We focus on the fact that while the male labour force participation rates in the two countries are fairly similar, their female labour force participation rates are vastly different. The bulk of the research on female participation in the labour force has been on supply-side constraints: Family income and employment, marital …

International Women’s Day: Gender equality in tech remains a distant goal
2 years, 9 months ago

International Women’s Day: Gender equality in tech remains a distant goal

Live Mint  

India’s technology sector has seen a steady growth in the number of women in its workforce over the years, but experts say that gender equality is still a distant goal. According to Siva Prasad Nanduri, vice president and business head, IT Staffing at hiring consultancy TeamLease Digital, the proportion of women in tech roles has nudged up slightly in recent …

Women@Work: Working Women Up Globally but Down in India. Is There a Way Out?
2 years, 9 months ago

Women@Work: Working Women Up Globally but Down in India. Is There a Way Out?

News 18  

My daughter who is in Grade 1 was in her Hindi online class and while doing the akshar श्र they were asked to draw a श्रमिक, without hesitation she drew me. If you look at data from the 1990s till date, across most countries, women’s participation in the labour force has increased. Our rate is significantly lower than Sri Lanka …

Missing Females: COVID-19 Underreporting among Women Exposes a Persistent and Global Problem
2 years, 9 months ago

Missing Females: COVID-19 Underreporting among Women Exposes a Persistent and Global Problem

News 18  

In the healthcare sector, relevant and accurate data has become everything. It is now that the world should turn towards addressing and filling in the data gap; otherwise, we would fail to produce better outcomes for women’s health. A recent study by Yeva Aleksanyan and Jason P. Weinman titled, “Women, Men and COVID-19” investigates the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic …

Covid-19: Prioritise gender-responsive recovery
2 years, 9 months ago

Covid-19: Prioritise gender-responsive recovery

Hindustan Times  

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused serious economic disruptions. As we celebrate International Women’s Day, a focus on gender-responsive economic recovery is imperative to counter the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women, especially in India. The majority of the working women in India are in informal employment, characterised by job insecurity, income volatility, and the absence of social safety nets …

False stereotypes must get out of gender equality’s way
2 years, 11 months ago

False stereotypes must get out of gender equality’s way

Live Mint  

While a Chinese woman astronaut was embarking on her second space voyage and first space walk, the media mostly highlighted the sexist comments and condescending remarks hurled at her, rather than her remarkable feats. In 1962, at a US Congressional hearing on women as spacefarers, a view was aired that women are “less susceptible to monotony, loneliness, heat, pain, and …

What is keeping women from going to work?
3 years ago

What is keeping women from going to work?

Hindustan Times  

Though the Indian economy more than doubled in size and the number of working-age women grew by a quarter over the last two decades, the number of women in jobs declined by ten million. The paper also explores two key gender-oriented factors as potential reasons that can lead to high crime rates against women and girls: these are consumption of …

Remote working allowed more women to take up jobs during the pandemic
3 years, 1 month ago

Remote working allowed more women to take up jobs during the pandemic

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The number of women aged between 25 and 44 who are in work in 2021 has …

Many women have left the workforce. When will they return?
3 years, 1 month ago

Many women have left the workforce. When will they return?

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — There was a time when Naomi Peña could seemingly do it all: Work a full-time job and raise four children on her own. “I had to pivot,” said Peña, 41, who said the pandemic disrupted her children’s lives and led her to suspend her career because she felt she was needed more at home than at work. …

It’s 2021 and women are still getting fired for pregnancy
3 years, 1 month ago

It’s 2021 and women are still getting fired for pregnancy

Live Mint  

-- There are still almost 40 countries where women can be fired from their jobs simply for getting pregnant, World Bank chief economist Carmen Reinhart said in a discussion on how the pandemic is making it even harder for women to escape poverty. Speaking on Bloomberg Television in a conversation with Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, director of strategy and policy at the …

Job loss in women-centric sectors, family care & more: Why young female workers were worst hit by Covid
3 years, 1 month ago

Job loss in women-centric sectors, family care & more: Why young female workers were worst hit by Covid

India Today  

Commercial activities might be limping back to normalcy but the scars of Covid on the Indian economy will take time to heal. While the overall employment-to-population ratio fell 1.6 per cent between January and March 2020, it fell 5.6 per cent for younger women, showed the latest report by the International Labour Organization. Women were disproportionately affected, accounting for 38.9 …

How Covid Impacted urban women workforce in India
3 years, 3 months ago

How Covid Impacted urban women workforce in India

Hindustan Times  

Examining high-frequency national-level panel data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy on paid work and unpaid work, this paper examines the effects of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic on the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work until December 2020, using difference-in-differences for estimating the before and after effects, and event study estimates around the strict national lockdown …

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