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From childcare to eldercare: EAC-PM working paper pitches inter-ministerial push to formalise care economyA new report from the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council suggests boosting India's care economy. It calls for a special fund, bette...- PM's economic advisory panel flags demand surge for caregivers, seeks policy overhaul for sectorIndia's Prime Minister's economic advisory panel recommends a major revamp of the care sector. Demand for caregivers is expected to surge p...
- Care economy in India: EAC-PM working paper lays out a roadmapThe paper, Re-imagining the Care Economy: From Private Burden to Social and Economic Infrastructure and co-authored by Shamika Ravi, member...
- Going online helps Pakistan's women doctors back to workThousands of Pakistani women doctors are returning to practice through telemedicine. This initiative connects home-based doctors with patie...
- 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 ...
- 8 ways India’s Labour Codes can help build a modern, expanding, and increasingly diverse workforceBy streamlining the old laws, the government has signalled its intent to align India’s regulatory framework with the demands of a $5 trilli...
- Banking on equality: ways to enhance gender representation in Financial ServicesWomen are 24% of the BFSI workforce and face challenges in career progression and work-life balance. While more women step into leadership ...
- Work-life balance, fewer flexible work options pose challenge for women at job frontA recent report highlighted that work-life balance issues are a primary reason for women quitting jobs, affecting 39 percent. Lack of flexi...
- Inside government's ₹3 trillion push to empower women at workThe Union Budget 2024 earmarked ₹3 trillion to empower Indian women, focusing on skill development, entrepreneurship, and infrastructure so...
- Automation paves way for women in traditionally male-dominated manufacturing sectorThe drive towards automation in India's manufacturing sector is anticipated to increase the hiring of women, leading to more inclusive work...
- PepsiCo launches project to enhance livelihood prospects of womenThe programme will help women unlock direct and indirect opportunities to improve livelihood prospects in unconventional roles like sales, ...
- Companies are taking steps to boost gender diversityCompanies are taking various measures to increase the gender diversity numbers. These include hiring more women from campuses, offering fle...
- Female employees break a Tata Steel glass ceilingTata Steel has deployed four female employees as stacker-cum-reclaimer (SCR) operators for the first time at its Meramandali plant in Odish...
- Mswipe looks to have 50% women employees by end of 2022Currently, Mswipe has 2,900 employees and has plans to hire some 2,000-odd professionals by April 2022, as well as appoint women on its lea...
- Capgemini's Sakhi Drishtikon program aims to bring women from economically weak backgrounds in rural India into mainstream workforceThe firm allows women employees across grades, roles and skills to benefit from its gender diversity programs.
- Accenture sets goal to achieve gender balanced workforce by 2025Currently, Accenture has 150,000 women, nearly 40% of its global workforce. Over the past several years the company has set milestones on t...
- Accenture aims to achieve gender balanced workforce by 2025"Diversity makes our business stronger and more innovative and, most important, it makes the world a better place," Accenture's chairman an...
- Ericsson to increase women in its workforce by more than a third by 2020Ericsson aims to increase the proportion of women in its workforce by more than a third by 2020, as part of a drive that began about two ye...
- Getting even at work: Number of women employees up in many sectorsThe fight to balance the boardroom may not have been won but quite a few Indian companies have been making strides towards a gender-balance...
- MNC headhunters chase women to fill top jobsMNCs are chasing the fair sex big time to fill the top positions as women are better communicators and negotiators. Interview mistakes I Sm...
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