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India's rank on Global Gender Gap Index unchanged at 131; Iceland retains top spotIndia remains at 131st on the Global Gender Gap Index 2026. Progress towards gender parity stands at 64.5 percent, below the global average...- Pakistan's gender gap index hits rock bottom, second worst globallyWomen's rights activists have issued impassioned pleas for both state and societal commitment to address gender disparities effectively.soc...
- Global equality champion Iceland set to elect woman as presidentIceland is set to elect a woman as president for the second time. Two women, Katrin Jakobsdottir and Halla Tomasdottir, are leading in the ...
- Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violenceIceland's Prime Minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir, joined women across the country in a strike to demand an end to unequal pay and gender-based...
- Women's day off: Massive women's strike in Iceland targets gender pay gap and violenceTens of thousands of women and non-binary individuals in Iceland, including Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdóttir, are organizing a historic s...
- India proposes talks on gender equality, women in EFTA trade pact: Piyush GoyalEarlier India had opposed the inclusion of non-trade issues like gender in its trade pacts. On India’s patent office, Goyal said: “About 1,...
- India ranks low at 135th for gender parity; worst for health and survival, says WEFOn the health and survival subindex, India ranked the lowest at 146th place and figured among the five countries with gender gaps larger th...
- UK four-day week trial begins, world’s biggest pilot of its kindUK’s four days week trial is to begin on Monday. This will continue for six weeks and is said to be the world’s biggest pilot of its kind.
- PM Modi meets Iceland counterpart in Denmark; discusses ways to boost tiesModi, who arrived here on Tuesday from Berlin on the second leg of his visit to three European nations, met Jakobsdottir on the sidelines o...
- Passport to acceptance? LGBTQ+ travellers wary about gender-neutral IDsThe United States issued its first "X" passport last year to Dana Zzyym, who is non-binary and intersex - born with atypical sex characteri...
- India ranks 108th in WEF gender gap index 2018Gender gap was measured across four key pillars -- economic opportunity, political empowerment, educational attainment, and health and surv...
- Women are on track to earn the same as men -- in 202 yearsThe economic opportunity gap -- based on participation, pay and advancement in the workforce -- remains the area that’ll take the longest t...
- Being a woman got even worse in 2017: It will take 100 years before women achieve equalityThe global backsliding reflects a general slowing of progress in the world’s larger economies.
- Iceland to become the first country in the world to neutralise gender pay gapIceland ranks first on the World Economic Forum's 2015 Global Gender Gap Index.
- Gender parity: Despite 21-place jump, India at a lowly 87In this latest edition, the report finds that progress towards parity in the key economic pillar has slowed dramatically with the gap - whi...
- Gender pay gap? Most people think men, women paid equallyWomen feel the pinch more than their male counterparts: 70% of women believe there is equal pay for equal work at their employer compared w...
- Using Britain like porn filter model better option than blanket ban: ExpertsA blanket ban on all pornographic content is rarely considered effective because of the plethora of workarounds available.
- India slips to 114th spot in WEF Gender Gap IndexIndia’s poor performance was largely on account of deterioration in economic participation and opportunity, as well as educational attainme...
- Reproductive rights fail to find mention in Rio declarationWomen’s rights activists lost at the Rio+20 dialogue with the conference deciding to delete any reference to ‘reproductive rights’ of women...
- India named among world's 10 most gender-biased economiesIn the overall ranking, the country has slipped from 98th rank in 2006 when the index included a total of 115 countries. No longer a gender...
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