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Is India winning the wrong battle on infant mortality?
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She is an ex-techie who entered industry with no support, lost movies to star kids. Later, won a National Award. Kriti Sanon calls out pay disparity in Bollywood

- Going online helps Pakistan's women doctors back to work
  Thousands of Pakistani women doctors are returning to practice through telemedicine. This initiative connects home-based doctors with patie...
  29 Apr, 2026, 11.16 AM IST
- 8 ways India’s Labour Codes can help build a modern, expanding, and increasingly diverse workforce
  By streamlining the old laws, the government has signalled its intent to align India’s regulatory framework with the demands of a $5 trilli...
  09 Apr, 2026, 04.17 PM IST
- Blue-collar salaries rising faster than entry-level white-collar jobs; gender pay gap persists: Report
  Blue-collar jobs are seeing faster salary growth than some white-collar roles. Delivery and driver positions experienced significant pay in...
  26 Mar, 2026, 04.13 PM IST
- Gender disparity exists in rural India with majority of employed individuals male: Survey
  A survey found that employment among rural men aged 18-25 is 50%, while only 25% of rural women in the same age group are employed. In the ...
  05 Aug, 2024, 08.39 PM IST
- Gender disparity in CDIO roles: Only 17% are women, study reveals
  A WalkWater Talent Advisors report reveals a surge in hiring Chief Digital and Information Officers (CDIOs), with one in three companies re...
  16 Jul, 2024, 11.47 AM IST
- Pakistan's gender gap index hits rock bottom, second worst globally
  Women's rights activists have issued impassioned pleas for both state and societal commitment to address gender disparities effectively.soc...
  07 Jul, 2024, 06.40 AM IST
- Women's day off: Massive women's strike in Iceland targets gender pay gap and violence
  Tens of thousands of women and non-binary individuals in Iceland, including Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdóttir, are organizing a historic s...
  23 Oct, 2023, 06.51 PM IST
- G20 reaches consensus on more power to women
  Inspirational stories serve as powerful role models by illuminating the path to success through real-life examples. For the first time, und...
  16 Sep, 2023, 09.08 AM IST
- India should vigorously pursue G20 agenda: Commonwealth Gen-Secy
  Commonwealth General-Secretary Patricia Scotland has urged India to prioritize gender parity and inclusive approaches in its pursuit of the...
  02 Sep, 2023, 03.43 PM IST
- It pays to fix gender wage disparity
  Some of these factors are addressed by the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) scheme that acted as a ballast d...
  19 Mar, 2023, 11.06 PM IST
- How GoI's proposal to push back the legal age of marriage for women is in sync with 'Beti bachao, beti padhao' campaign
  Early marriage and, subsequently, early motherhood have an adverse impact on the health of the mother as well as the child. India's MMR is ...
  19 Dec, 2021, 11.11 PM IST
- 'Cos need to go beyond introducing incentives, should aim to improve the overall quality of life for women employees'
  TR Ramachandran believes organisations need to introduce policies to make it simpler for women to return to the office.
  06 Mar, 2020, 05.14 PM IST
- India witnessing gender disparities against backdrop of rapid economic growth: Gender index
  New Delhi, Oct 1 () India still witnesses gender disparities against the backdrop of rapid economic growth even as the rate of violence aga...
  01 Oct, 2018, 07.06 PM IST
- Now Facebook's job ads accused of discriminating on basis of gender
  The company said it would review the complaint and that it looked forward to defending its advertising practices.
  19 Sep, 2018, 06.54 PM IST
- Startups take a fair shot at workplace diversity
  Of its last 150 hires, 48 are women, with the ratio of women at the payments company now near 25%, including in the technology team.
  28 Dec, 2017, 07.07 AM IST
- Underrating girls in maths creates gender gap: Study
  New York, Oct 28 (IANS) Teachers underrating girls' ability to solve problems in Mathematics will likely contribute to the widening of gend...
  28 Oct, 2016, 04.05 PM IST
- Gender disparity: Women comprise less than 25% of Facebook's user base in India
  Out of the 94 million monthly active users in India, 72 million are men- which amount to a staggering 76% of the total Facebook population ...
  30 Jan, 2014, 04.50 PM IST
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