Gender Gap in India: Opportunities and Avenues to Answer the Riddle
New Delhi: India ranked 112 in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2019-2020. The report particularly notes that economic opportunities for women are […]
Gender Gap
The myth surrounding the urban Indian woman
By Kritika Shah New Delhi: Much frenzy has been created around India’s declining female labour force. In 2017, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimated this […]
Urban Millennials Are Becoming Multilingual, 52% Of Youngsters Speaks At Least 2 Languages Fluently
Globalisation in India led to a boom in the job market industry as more and more young job aspirants started becoming NRIs (Non-Resident Indians). Seeking […]
Gender gap in Indian formal sector worse than global average, LinkedIn data shows
By Arjun Srinivas and Samarth Bansal Every industry sector in India employs more men than women. Moreover, the gender gap among Indian professionals is worse than […]
Gender gap: 4 out of 5 retail firms hire less than 10% women, finds World Economic Forum study
Highlighting the major gender gap in Indian corporates, a study has found that four out of five retail firms hire less than 10% women. Highlighting […]
In India, Women Earn Only 65% of Men’s Earnings: Report
A report released by the Centre for Sustainable Employment of the Azim Premji University on Tuesday states that the gender gap varies widely i.e. between […]
Four-fold decline in gender gap in survival of girl child in 5 years in India: UN
The number of infant deaths has come down from 8.67 lakh in 2016 to 8.02 lakh in 2017. About 8,02,000 infant deaths were reported in […]
STEM the gender gap
Despite recent progress, the gender gap appears likely to persist for generations, particularly in computer science, physics, and maths. Women comprise a minority of the […]
Women & Banking: India’s financial inclusion suffers from a gender gap
By Renu Kohli Indian women score disproportionately low on ordinary functions such as savings and borrowings: of more than three-fourths who have a bank account, less […]
Can India answer the call? Addressing the gender gap in mobile phone access
By Charity Troyer Moore and Rashi Sabherwal Amidst these growing gender gaps, our research team has been examining yet another gap: that of women’s mobile […]