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एआई और भारतीय महिलाएं: मौका या नई असमानता!
Feb 06, 2026

एआई और भारतीय महिलाएं: मौका या नई असमानता!

एआई सिर्फ़ टेक्नोलॉजी नहीं बल्कि भारतीय महिलाओं के लिए ए

Skills, Safeguards and Scale: Making AI Work for Women in India
Feb 04, 2026

Skills, Safeguards and Scale: Making AI Work for Women in India

Bridging India’s AI gender gap requires inclusive adoption, skill development, and safeguards to turn technology into an equitable opportunity for w

भारत-केनिया-नायजेरिया या देशांतील महिलांची उपेक्षा आणि बदलाचे मार्ग
Sep 12, 2025

भारत-केनिया-नायजेरिया या देशांतील महिलांची उपेक्षा आणि बदलाचे मार्ग

कॉर्पोरेट बोर्डरूमपासून केअरवर्कपर्यंत, भारत, नायजेरिय

Fixing the Pipeline: Women’s Workforce Participation in India, Nigeria, and Kenya
Aug 04, 2025

Fixing the Pipeline: Women’s Workforce Participation in India, Nigeria, and Kenya

From corporate boardrooms to care work, women in India, Nigeria, and Kenya navigate layered barriers—local innovations point to change.

Women in the Marketplace: Integration, Spatial Justice, and Right to the City
Jun 10, 2025

Women in the Marketplace: Integration, Spatial Justice, and Right to the City

Policies ease entry for women entrepreneurs—but without spatial justice, equity in India’s markets is still out of reach.

Gender and the Gig Economy: A qualitative study of Gig platforms for women workers
May 24, 2023

Gender and the Gig Economy: A qualitative study of Gig platforms for women workers

Despite the unprecedented growth of India’s gig economy and possible benefits to women service providers, little attention has been paid to the hurdles faced by women in pursuing gig work. Indeed, gig work has witnessed similar gendered division as has been evident in traditional work, and has not led to a direct increase in Female Labour Force Participation (FLPR) in India. This brief examines the existing literature on the problems faced by w

Gender in the Waterscape: Creating Economic Ripples in India’s Labour Markets
Dec 13, 2023

Gender in the Waterscape: Creating Economic Ripples in India’s Labour Markets

This paper assesses the gendered division of labour for household-level domestic service activities, of which water management remains a primary component, across Indian states and the various dimensions of gender that are relevant in this context. Women have traditionally played an essential role in water management at the household level, devoting a significant share of their day to related unpaid domestic service activities. Such engagements o

Promoting female participation in urban India’s labour force
May 11, 2023

Promoting female participation in urban India’s labour force

The workforce participation rate of India’s women is significantly lower than that of the men; and amongst the women, the employment levels of urban women are lower than those of their rural counterparts. Using the findings of the 2018 Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), released in 2019, this brief provides an overview of the current state of female labour force participation in urban India. It analyses data on vocational training and employm