MGNREGA is not a dole but a dignity-based right to work that strengthens rural incomes, women’s participation and local assets. Proposed re...

The Trump administration, under Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, has cancelled millions in grants aimed at combating global...

Dr. Harsha Sahni, an Indian American physician, had her medical license permanently revoked after pleading guilty to illegally recruiting a...

In a stunning move just ahead of weekly prime minister's questions, Natalie Elphicke crossed the floor of the House of Commons to join the ...

Personal laws, such as those related to marriage and divorce, treat women as powerless and in need of protection. Concepts like stridhan an...

Mental load has been defined as the combination of cognitive labour and emotional labour.

The peculiar changes in rural employment over the year seem to signal distress-driven employment. Thus, the turnabout in the female LFPR sh...

The 46-year-old Satish Kartan and his wife Sharmistha Barai (40) were found guilty of conspiracy to obtain forced labour and two counts of ...

Gender becomes the biggest predictor of who will do what around the house when couples are in their forties.

Under the Millennium Development Goal 5, the target is to reduce MMR by three quarters between 1990 and 2015.

That actual husbands do not get paid for such services could explain their legendary reluctance to bestir themselves to be useful when nece...

Focus of the survey will be women, especially since most studies simply ignore the amount of work that goes into keeping a household runnin...

"The govt is implementing the National Child Labour Project scheme for rehabilitation of child labour since 1988 in the area of high concen...

It is easy to change laws, even if this had become a challenge in the recent past of fractured electoral mandates. What is tough is to chan...

People have started brushing up on physics. If you are poor, 11.2-km-a-second (Earth) may be required to break out of the poverty trap.

Government is considering quantifying values silently created by women in India and devise strategies to empower them.

Active public support can reverse a recent trend of worsening nutrition among the poor.