Tag: Gender inequality

Supreme Court to discuss gender inequality at religious places, including Sabarimala

The top court had, on January 13, asked four senior lawyers to convene a meeting to decide on the issues to be deliberated by it in the matter.

February 3, 2020

Prisoner of Gender

Gender inequality is one of the major challenges facing India’s policy-makers who are trying to achieve ‘a faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth’. For growth to be inclusive, the people, irrespective of gender, must have the opportunity to participate productively in the growth process. However, despite significant economic progress over the past 25 years, gender …

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May 5, 2018

Give us equality and respect, we can breathe easy without flowers, chocolates!   

Let me tell you what we (women) want more than Women's Day wishes, gifts, and flowers.

March 8, 2018

Ladies, on this Women’s Day, let’s pledge to stop pulling each other down!

Debates on ‘how men need to behave with women so that the ‘second’ gender is no more suppressed’ will once again take the centre stage.

March 8, 2018

Gender inequality

In recent years, women have made significant progress towards equality in a number of areas such as education and health, with the Nordic countries leading the fray. But the global trend now seems to have made a Uturn, especially in workplaces, where full gender equality is not expected to materialise until 2234, WEF said in …

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November 19, 2017

Child abuse, neglect linked to gender inequality, finds study

Children growing up in societies that experience high level of gender inequality are more likely to be maltreated, finds a study that identified a link between child abuse, neglect and gender inequality. The research found that the rate of physical abuse of children varied between 1 and 43 per cent, while child neglect rates stood …

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July 30, 2017