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Answer is not in Metro or BRT alone but multimodal system: Former Bogota mayor
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Answer is not in Metro or BRT alone but multimodal system: Former Bogota mayor

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Bogota, the capital of Colombia, became a role model for public transport innovations, thanks to the shining success of its Bus Rapid Transit System since 2000 and the expansion of the city’s cycling infrastructure. A former senator and a vice presidential candidate for the Green Alliance in Colombia’s presidential elections in 2018, Lopez insists that the solution for …

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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  

In 1989, Claudia Goldin became the first woman to be given tenure in the economics department at Harvard University. According to the International Labor Organization, unpaid care work is estimated to be one of the major barriers to women’s entry into the labour force. In India, conversations about recognising unpaid care work have been in the public sphere for many …

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Why covid made childcare more challenging
2 years, 7 months ago

Why covid made childcare more challenging

Live Mint  

Motherhood is as much a joyful experience as it is hard work. Dr Ketoki Mazumdar, an assistant professor at the School of Human Ecology at Tata Institute of Social Sciences and a perinatal mental health expert from Postpartum Support International, studied urban mothers' lived experiences during the pandemic. This study stemmed from Dr Mazumdar's personal experience of being a mother …

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Is there really a fair way to divvy up household labor and childcare? Research says it's possible
2 years, 9 months ago

Is there really a fair way to divvy up household labor and childcare? Research says it's possible

Salon  

This is a tale of many marriages, two popular self-help books, and a bunch of academic research — plus loads and loads of children and laundry. A competitor with the relative resources theory, the "time availability hypothesis" essentially posits that when women and men work an equal number of hours, equality will result. Arnaldur had to care for his much …

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Division of domestic labour continues to land heavily on women
3 years, 3 months ago

Division of domestic labour continues to land heavily on women

ABC  

For Maree and Mel Anderson, making sure domestic work and caring for their children is fairly evenly split has been one of the secrets of a long, happy relationship. New data from the Australian Institute of Family Studies, provided to 7.30 for its Why Women Are Angry series, shows that the division of domestic labour continues to land heavily on …

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Patralekha Chatterjee | Covid’s impact, WFH has hit India’s women harder
3 years, 5 months ago

Patralekha Chatterjee | Covid’s impact, WFH has hit India’s women harder

Deccan Chronicle  

What does being a homemaker and a mother really mean for the vast majority of Indian women? But millions of women in India, as in many other countries, are still socialised into accepting the notion that it is “natural” for women to be tasked with unpaid domestic work. Every day, women spent nearly five hours in unpaid domestic work; for …

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‘Shecession’ and the Case of Missing Women in India’s Formal Economy
3 years, 6 months ago

‘Shecession’ and the Case of Missing Women in India’s Formal Economy

News 18  

India slipped 28 places from 112 to 140 in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. Indeed, several estimates report that if women’s work were recognized correctly, FLPR would be 81.6 per cent, as compared to Male Labour Force Participation Rate of 76.7 percent. While the formal economy is made to run on the backs of women, the …

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