India should vigorously pursue G20 agenda: Commonwealth Gen-SecyCommonwealth General-Secretary Patricia Scotland has urged India to prioritize gender parity and inclusive approaches in its pursuit of the...
02 Sep, 2023, 03.43 PM IST
India climbs eight places to 127 in global gender index, says WEF reportIndia has moved up eight positions to rank 127 out of 146 countries in terms of gender parity in the World Economic Forum's annual Gender G...
21 Jun, 2023, 04.08 PM IST
Normalise gender pay parityBe it cricket, the film industry, the corporate world or, say, sugarcane farming in Maharashtra, the ground reality is the same everywhere:...
28 Oct, 2022, 10.45 PM IST
View: India's labour reforms will foster gender parityThe new set of labour laws essentially aims at providing equal opportunities to women workers as well while ensuring wage parity with their...
13 Sep, 2022, 09.31 PM IST
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...
13 Jul, 2022, 04.57 PM IST
View: Solving for the almost missing women as entrepreneursWomen own only 13.76% of the enterprises and are founders of 6% of the Indian start-ups. Start-ups with at least one woman co-founder raise...
18 Nov, 2021, 09.20 PM IST
Sebi aims for real gender parity at India IncThe development comes as gender parity at the workplace is a key issue globally.
29 Sep, 2020, 02.16 PM IST
How women can bridge the large gender pay gapYour career is undeniably the biggest investment of your working life. Where the gender pay gap exists, it means that for the same work, yo...
02 Mar, 2020, 06.30 AM IST
India must promote gender parity, push exports: Amitabh KantIndia must promote gender parity and push exports to grow at 9-10 per cent annually in the next three decades, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant ...
16 Oct, 2018, 07.20 PM IST
Advancing gender parity could contribute $770 billion to India’s GDP by 2025: McKinsey reportIn contrast, in China, women contribute 41% to the overall GDP and comprise 44% of the workforce and in Singapore, these are 39% and 45%, r...
20 Jun, 2018, 08.19 AM IST
India Inc debates: Can regulation be the key to gender pay parity?But regulation alone can't implement change which must come from management.
19 Mar, 2018, 12.32 PM IST
'To achieve pay parity, understand pay practices'The American company recently announced that it had closed the wage gap between its male and female employees in India. This followed the c...
12 Feb, 2018, 11.04 PM IST
Adobe India almost achieves gender parity in salariesThe company also anticipates that there will remain no wage gap between white and non-white employees in the US. Adobe's US and India emplo...
09 Sep, 2017, 03.48 PM IST
Adobe Systems launches gender pay parity policyAdobe is working on closing the gender wage gap in the US by the end of its current fiscal year, in November, with women paid $1 for every ...
08 Sep, 2017, 12.20 AM IST
Gender parity to boost India's economic growth: IMFAs per a recent IMF study, India's GDP can expand by 27 per cent if the number of women workers increases to the same level as that of men.
15 Nov, 2015, 02.40 PM IST
UN notes progress, but says challenges remain for IndiaWhile India is on track to achieving the hunger targets, it remains home to one quarter of the world's under-nourished population, the repo...
07 Jul, 2015, 03.46 PM IST
India lowest among APAC nations in women's advancement: ReportAcross the region, New Zealand had the highest overall Index score of 77, followed by Australia (76), the Philippines (72.6) and Singapore ...
07 Mar, 2015, 03.47 PM IST