NITI Aayog member Arvind Virmani emphasized that skill development and increased women's participation are crucial for India's economic gro...

India's gender-responsive budgeting has increased allocations but lacks the necessary systemic reforms and mandatory frameworks across gove...

Some of these factors are addressed by the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) scheme that acted as a ballast d...

In India, the Periodic Labour Force Survey for the years 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 shows that the top 10% earn approximately equal to th...

Gangwar was delivering Ministerial Address on Declaration and Employment Working Group Priorities at G20 Labour and Employment Ministers' M...

In efforts to integrate GRB in India’s budgeting process, the Government of India introduced the Gender Budget Statement (GBS) in the Union...

The suggestion was made by Dreze at a three-day International Conference on Gender Equality (ICGE II 2021), organised by the Gender Park un...

As education and health outcomes improve, women's barriers to entry in joining the workforce would reduce. This would reverse the worrying ...

While the National Nutrition Mission has received a big boost of Rs 3,400 crore, anganwadi services and the Integrated Child Development Sc...

"More than 50 lakh girls have been empowered through this scheme which has a budget of Rs 5600+ crores," she said on her Twitter handle.

The remarks were made by Civil Aviation Secretary R N Choubey in a video message at an event here to celebrate International Women's Day to...

Markers like allocations for women’s ministries and Gender Budget Statement (GBS) can help assess the gender responsiveness of this Budget.

India's first gender equality convergence center, will be inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee here on February 27.

The genesis of the government's Beti bachao beti padhao (BBBP) scheme was this: Giving girls a chance to be born, to be loved and to grow.

India had the lowest income gap, of the nine emerging economies studied by OECD, followed by Russia, Indonesia, Columbia and South Africa.

The scheme will be launched by PM on January 22 and will focus on a multi-sectoral approach to tackling the problem of the vanishing girl c...

The economist said it was "ironical" that during the peak period of the country's development, the corresponding indexes for poverty reduct...