India’s gig economy boom must start working for the women behind itFemale gig workers face challenges like limited mobility and financial access. Initiatives providing affordable asset finance and tailored ...
15 Apr, 2026, 11.41 PM IST
Centre launches Gender Budgeting Knowledge Hub to promote inclusive growthThe Central government has launched the Gender Budgeting Knowledge Hub, a digital platform designed to promote gender-responsive planning n...
19 Jun, 2025, 03.39 PM IST
India's gender budgeting progress: Are we truly empowering women?India's gender-responsive budgeting has increased allocations but lacks the necessary systemic reforms and mandatory frameworks across gove...
31 Jan, 2025, 10.53 PM IST
Gender budgeting share in total expenditure rises to 6.8% from 4.5% in 2014, up 18.9% in FY25 (YoY): RBIIndia has successfully implemented gender budgeting policies over the past 20 years, increasing the gender budget share to 6.8% of total ex...
25 Dec, 2024, 10.00 AM IST
India struggles with limited effectiveness of its gender responsive budgeting: UN ReportA new report presented at the UN Ministerial Conference on Women Empowerment in Bangkok highlights that India's Gender Responsive Budgeting...
20 Nov, 2024, 03.57 PM IST
'India committed to bridging gender pay gap, digital divide'At the UN Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference, India pledged to boost women's participation in non-traditional sectors, address gender pay ...
20 Nov, 2024, 12.21 AM IST
Gender budgeting revamp on the cards to better log spends on women schemesIndia is considering a revamp of its annual budget to improve tracking of spending on gender equality and women's empowerment. The focus wi...
20 Sep, 2023, 06.58 AM IST
Gender-budgeting, unleash the 'crazy'Empowering women - whether in the boardroom, workplace or household - is not just about bridging the gender gap. It is also a strategic mea...
30 Apr, 2023, 11.09 PM IST
WEF recognised need to count women participation in local bodies in its gender gap report: Smriti IraniThe World Economic Forum (WEF) ranked India at 135 out of 146 countries in its Global Gender Gap (GGG) Index for 2022. India's rank has bee...
23 Jan, 2023, 07.29 PM IST
India’s G20 Presidency: Why it is an opportunity to showcase women-led developmentThe G20 Presidency provides India the right platform to showcase its efforts towards the social upliftment of women.
03 Jan, 2023, 10.28 AM IST
Niti unit pitches for gender Budgeting actDMEO, which is an attached office under the NITI Aayog, has called for incentivising women participation in all training and capacity build...
07 Jul, 2022, 12.18 AM 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
Budget 2020: The need for gender budgetingAs education and health outcomes improve, women's barriers to entry in joining the workforce would reduce. This would reverse the worrying ...
31 Jan, 2020, 11.12 AM IST
Gender budget allocation increases by Rs 9,739 crore in Budget 2019While the National Nutrition Mission has received a big boost of Rs 3,400 crore, anganwadi services and the Integrated Child Development Sc...
02 Feb, 2019, 08.44 AM IST
Budget 2016: To really transform India, focus on women firstMarkers like allocations for women’s ministries and Gender Budget Statement (GBS) can help assess the gender responsiveness of this Budget.
01 Mar, 2016, 12.38 PM IST
India calls for more participation by women in parliamentary committeesIndia has called on the parliaments across the world to ensure more participation by women in parliamentary committees.
31 Aug, 2015, 07.56 PM IST
- Women to have greater say in planning through gender-budgeting
The Ministry of Women and Child Development has prepared a handbook on the 'dos and donts' on practicing gender budgeting.
20 Jan, 2008, 11.18 AM IST