Page 2 - Gender Gap

Statsguru: India continues to fail its women as Covid-19 made things worse

India's economic participation and opportunity index was rising till 2012

The slip is showing

India's gender gap is wider than ever

WEF's gender gap index: India slips 28 places, ranks 140 among 156 nations

Only Pakistan (153) and Afghanistan (156) ranked lower in South Asia

Where China is only a notch above India

India and China seem united in gender discrimination

Gender gap to asset ownership: How data miss key details on 50% Indians

India ranked 112th of 153 countries on the Global Gender Gap Index 2020, a drop of four places since 2018

Policymakers discuss ways to address gender gap in STI Policy 2020

Several issues in terms of the low institutional mechanism to nurture women innovators, age-barrier issues, leaky pipeline, funding for women-led start-ups, leadership, gender bias were deliberated up

Bridging the gender and community gaps in India's higher education system

A study of higher education trends in India points towards many desirable and prospective policy recommendations to fill arising discrepancies

Wharton alumnus who is changing the way Indian women handle their finances

Hena Mehta tries to bring financial independence for women amid gender-specific issues like pay gaps and career breaks

Covid-19 and women@work

Poor access to economic opportunity is reflected potently in India's famously poor female labour force participation rates

Hard-sell on Women's Day

The anniversary has become a commercialised event

Closing the gender gap

The GII has been criticised for its complexity and difficulty in interpretation or understanding

Equality at home

The march for the equality of the sexes seems to fall apart at the family hearth

More girls aged 4-8 enrolled in govt schools, boys went to pvt ones: Report

Unlike earlier, the enrolment levels among girls overtook that of boys by a significant margin for 4-8-year-olds

Household electrification benefits men more than women in India: Study

According to the study, households tended to have more male-used appliances than neutral, and more neutral than female-used appliances

There's a 250-year wait for the economic gender gap to close: WEF report

The economic gender gap will take 257 years to close, the WEF said, even more than the 202 years it predicted in 2018

A continuing concern

Health, economic disparity responsible for India's gender gaps

India ranks poorly in gender gap index; Indonesia and Brazil do better

The gender gap is relatively small across countries when it comes to health

Gender parity: Women are on track to earn the same as men - in 202 years

Overall gender disparity across politics, work, health and education improved by less than 0.1 percent, meaning it'll take 108 years to reach parity

Gender gap in phone access curbing women's growth; highest in Rajasthan, UP

No more than 38% of women in India own mobile phones, compared with 71% of men

What explains the gender divide among teachers in India's higher education?

Of the teachers in India's higher education ecosystem, 58 per cent are male; Bihar has the most skewed gender balance