Foxconn: "Inadequate" probe into job discrimination case raises human right body's hackles; call for fresh probeThe National Human Rights Commission has criticised labour officials for insufficiently investigating hiring discrimination at Foxconn's iP...
23 Jan, 2025, 11.18 AM IST
From flowers to guns: Women's struggle against military conscription in MyanmarThousands of people are fleeing Myanmar due to the military junta's announcement of conscription to bolster its forces against armed groups...
04 Jul, 2024, 06.15 PM IST
'We hire more women because they are more disciplined', says Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal on Foxconn controversyOla's founder Bhavish Aggarwal reaffirmed the company's commitment to employing women, including married women, amid reports of Foxconn's d...
01 Jul, 2024, 02.16 PM IST
Apple supplier Foxconn rejects married women from India iPhone jobsA former human-resources executive at Foxconn India said the company's executives verbally convey the recruitment rules to its Indian hirin...
25 Jun, 2024, 03.59 PM IST
No vacancy for women: India Inc tightens scrutiny of women jobseekersIn India, employers are increasingly scrutinizing female job seekers due to perceived biases against women in a tightening job market. Whil...
05 Jan, 2024, 01.02 AM IST
'Liberty, equality, fraternity' for all? New riots make France confront an old problemThe lofty ideals to which France has long aspired are embossed on coins and carved above school doors across the land. Yet they are the pol...
04 Jul, 2023, 05.10 PM IST
How India Inc can help change social norms holding back women from workplaceIn India, women's workforce participation has been on a free fall. As per govt data, it fell from 31% in 2012 to 21% in 2021. Other data so...
21 Apr, 2022, 12.23 AM IST
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Microsoft had warned Bill Gates about sending 'flirtatious emails' to female employee in 2008The matter was dropped after Gates told them he would stop.
19 Oct, 2021, 01.00 PM IST
Microsoft says it warned Bill Gates about flirting in 2008Brad Smith, then Microsoft's general counsel and now its president and vice chair, and another executive met with Bill Gates after the comp...
19 Oct, 2021, 10.15 AM IST
Bill Gates's leadership roles and reputation stay intact despite disturbing allegationsHowever, critics say the revelations raise accountability concerns.
19 May, 2021, 10.30 AM IST
View: Discriminating against migrants isn’t just unconstitutional, it’s also bad politicsConstitution says, “State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds of ...place of birth"
23 Dec, 2018, 12.52 PM IST
Women directors at top firms paid 46% less than their male counterpartsThat wage gap comes on top of the already poor representation of women on boards and their absence from key committees, despite government ...
17 Dec, 2017, 11.09 PM IST
Transgender Bill falls short of estranged community's expectationsThe bill came in the wake of a 2014 Supreme Court judgment, which said those apart from the binary gender should be treated as the third ge...
06 Aug, 2017, 10.02 AM IST
State should foot bill for maternity, paternity leaveIncreasing maternity leave from 12 to 26 weeks will significantly increase wage costs in labour-intensive industries that India needs to pr...
14 Aug, 2016, 09.46 PM IST
Meet SBI CFO Anshula Kant, the woman who busted myths and ran a bank like a start upHer first love was economics when the subject was not much of a rage in the country, and there were not many job offers associated with it.
21 Oct, 2015, 05.37 AM IST
- Good times ahead for women workers
Everything is not bleak, here are some change agents that promises a better tommorrow.
07 Mar, 2008, 12.31 AM IST