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Bangladeshi garment factory workers (Photo: PTI)

Bangladeshi women steal a march over Pakistanis, and Indians too!

Bangladesh has registered an increase of 75.1 per cent in HDI value from 1990 to 2017, while it was 50 per cent for...

17 Nov 2019 8:17 PM

World Banks first Human Capital Index (HCI) in 2019 ranked India at 115 among 157 countries.

Malnutrition-free India by 2022: Is it a realisable goal?

Over 800 women die every day in childbirth, and 20 per cent of them are from India.

24 Sept 2019 7:43 PM

Women politicians Nusrat Jahan Ruhi, Pragya Thakur, Sunita Duggal, Goddeti Madhavi, Sumalatha Ambareesh, Navneet Rana. (Photo: IANS)

Elections in 2019 in Asian countries: A game-changer for women or not?

How do women in elections stand to gain in terms of power sharing? What are the takeaways for them?

21 July 2019 7:52 PM

Elderly widows chat while waiting for lunch at Mahila Ashram, a shelter home for widows in Vrindavan some 150 km south-east of New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

Women who lose their husbands: Do they also give up the right to live?

Now, much water has flowed after the passage of the widow remarriage act piloted by Vidyasagar in colonial India.

17 Jun 2019 9:04 PM

Women show their voter identity cards as they stand in queue to cast their votes in Guwahati earlier this month. (Photo: AP)

Is the next Lok Sabha going to be more gender equitable than the last...

Over the years, nevertheless, Indian women turned into enthusiastic voters.

29 April 2019 6:49 PM

Private security guards get a raw deal, and the minimum wages bill might bring relief to them.

No pay, no rest, no job security: Do you really want to be a chowkidar...

Undoubtedly, a chowkidar , a gatekeeper or a watchman, nowadays, is of ubiquitous presence in urban India.

10 April 2019 6:19 PM

A file photo of Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati and Mamata Banerjee with Rahul Gandhi at a political rally.

Bridging gender gap in politics: India lagging behind the rest of...

Nepal also has a policy of 33 per cent reservation for women in all state institutions, including the national...

13 Jan 2019 7:19 PM

Women workers at a tea plantation.

Is the space for working women in India shrinking?

The global proportion of working women has been found to be 50 per cent, but, it excludes India.

13 Nov 2018 6:34 PM

Indias gender gap is narrowing down from 21.6 per cent in 2001 to 16.3 per cent in 2011. (Photo: PTI)

Empowering India's women: We still have a long way to go

In today's India, stories of women breaking many glass ceilings and reaching the pinnacles of success are splashed in...

17 Oct 2018 7:04 PM