Gender Gap Index

A clarion call for gender equality -- VSSC/IISU marks Women's Day on digital platforms

October 29, 2020

A clarion call for gender equality -- VSSC/IISU marks Women's Day on digital platforms

Mariam Mammen Mathew rued the lower number of women in the field of science and technology.

January 18, 2020
71% urban Indians say pay parity for women will come in 2020

Seventy one per cent of urban Indians are confident there will be pay parity for women (paid the same as men for the same work) in 2020
December 19, 2019
India slips to 112th rank on Gender Gap Index

In 2018 and 2017, India ranked 108th in the gender gap index.
October 04, 2019
53% top Indian companies have Male to Female ratio 10:1 or worse: Study

It also revealed that of the total prescribed amount of Rs 23,247.90 crore to be spent by the mandated companies on CSR, only 57 per cent has been spent.
July 11, 2019
AI tool developed to detect discrimination on race, gender

Preventing unfair treatment of individuals on the basis of race, gender or ethnicity, for example, has been a long-standing concern of civilised societies.
April 03, 2019
87% women likely to quit over sexual harassment: Survey

About 80 per cent of respondents said they were more likely to report misbehaviour in the wake of last year's public offences.
March 21, 2019
From farms to slums, Indian women on sharp end of jobs crisis

Indian women, especially those working in precarious informal sectors, are at the sharp end of what economists and opposition politicians describe as a jobs crisis.

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