India’s post-pandemic jobs recovery masks fall in working hours, weak demandIndian workers are working fewer hours weekly compared to pre-pandemic times. This trend highlights a weak labor market recovery. Self-empl...
20 Apr, 2026, 06.00 PM IST
Climate crisis is a gender issue, women face higher risks, less representationClimate change disproportionately impacts women, who are often excluded from decision-making despite their crucial roles in crisis response...
17 Apr, 2026, 11.03 PM IST
Record 85.96 pc voter turnout in Assam assembly pollsAssam has achieved a historic voter turnout of 85.96 per cent in its recent assembly elections. This marks the highest participation in the...
11 Apr, 2026, 10.10 PM IST
- A day for the better half
Covid-19 has stalled progress towards achieving gender parity. It will take 132 years to close the global gender gap, at the current rate o...
08 Mar, 2023, 12.08 AM IST
Pandemic hurt gender pay-gap in India further; more women failed to get deserving pay hikes, bonusesEmployees are still being judged for taking advantage of flexible working.
09 Dec, 2021, 09.15 PM IST
Prolonged school closures due to Covid pose threat to gender equality: UNSECO studyDrawing on evidence from about 90 countries and in-depth data collected in local communities, the report shows that gender norms and expect...
21 Nov, 2021, 04.31 PM IST
More women and rural population jabbed for the first time in the Covid-19 vaccination driveThe Cowin dashboard shows a clear surge in vaccination of the rural population in the last few days. A good 1.09 crore doses were administe...
08 Sep, 2021, 12.45 PM IST
View: Assessing India’s gender budgetIn efforts to integrate GRB in India’s budgeting process, the Government of India introduced the Gender Budget Statement (GBS) in the Union...
14 Feb, 2021, 12.26 PM IST
Launch urban employment guarantee scheme: Jean Dreze to govtThe suggestion was made by Dreze at a three-day International Conference on Gender Equality (ICGE II 2021), organised by the Gender Park un...
12 Feb, 2021, 01.06 PM IST
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad says pandemic raising violence, trafficking of womenThe 27-year-old activist, who was forced into sexual slavery by Islamic State fighters in Iraq, said curfews, lockdowns and travel restrict...
01 Dec, 2020, 02.22 PM IST
COVID-19 is additional layer to 'gender equality in education' challenge: UNESCO reportThe UNSECO report has raised a red flag about the potential increase in early pregnancy likely to be a result of increased early marriages,...
18 Oct, 2020, 04.51 PM IST
Estrogen could be the reason why women face less severe Covid-19 symptoms than men, says studyThe study reviewed preclinical data on sex-specific hormone activity, especially estrogen.
28 Aug, 2020, 06.10 PM IST
Want to be British high commissioner for a day? Here's a chanceThe winner will experience a wide range of UK-India work, meet with senior stakeholders and partners to discuss the collective response to ...
28 Aug, 2020, 05.10 PM IST
Not a fair deal: Gender inequality increased in media during pandemic, says IFJ surveyThe Covid-19 crisis had a negative impact on women's salaries as well as on their work responsibilities, career advancement and private lif...
23 Jul, 2020, 06.09 PM IST
Is a germ’s gender really germane?Académie Française’s gender-changing characterisation is confusing the issue.
13 May, 2020, 08.18 AM IST
La, not le: Covid has a gender in the French language, and it's feminineThe World Health Organization has long referred to COVID-19 as "la".
12 May, 2020, 12.00 PM IST
The Covid 'gender' conundrum: Men are more vulnerable to coronavirus due to high levels of 'gateway' moleculeGateway molecule enables novel coronavirus to infect healthy cells.
11 May, 2020, 05.11 PM IST