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Current data suggests that the global community is far from achieving the 2030 agenda of ending hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition. By the end of 2019, 650 million people suffered from chronic hunger and 135 million experienced acute food-insecurity. Not all regions are equal: the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2020 found that some are experiencing less severe incidence of hunger on the GHI scale, compared to others. The most serious levels of
Why is that academics has such biases?
The trend of women's mass involvement in electoral politics in India indicates their readiness to narrow the significant gap in political participatio
India ranks 114 out of 142 countries in the Global Gender Gap index this year. Except Pakistan, most of the South Asian countries rank higher than India. What the index shows is a reflection of reality that no matter how rapidly India grows, women's status in society needs faster improvement.
A more gender-inclusive approach needs to adopted by financial institutions to boost women entrepreneurship in India
भले ही भारत ने अपने वित्तीय बाज़ारों में लैंगिक असमानता �
अलग अलग क्षेत्रों में महिलाओं और पुरुषों के बीच अंतर को प�
In the coming budget, concrete ideas of increasing women’s participation in the workforce should be included. There has to be an increased allocatio
What is driving India’s abnormally high gender gap in phone ownership? What can be done about it?
India is seeing a shift towards greater financial inclusion and women's empowerment. Policies supporting this trend can create a more equitable financ
Despite global calls to increase women in policing, the progress remains regrettably slow
Gender disparity has wide and reverberating impacts across all pillars of society, including significant economic implications.
The problems India is facing are hard to solve in the short term and only incremental changes can be undertaken in the five-year term of any government at the Centre. As per an Oxfam survey, India is a highly unequal country on all counts. There are inequalities in wealth, income and consumption as well as structural inequalities of opportunity, region and social groups.
India’s 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, which empowered local self-governments (Panchayati Raj Institutions) and reserved one-third of electoral seats in these bodies for women, has elevated women’s participation in rural governance. India is among the foremost countries for women’s participation in local governments, with over 1.45 million women shaping local decision-making. Women leaders are a critical link between local governance, s
Financial inclusion is critical to achieving the economic empowerment of women—one of the targets under the fifth Sustainable Development Goal on gender equality. In India, one in every five women lack access to a bank account. Although the country’s programmes promoting financial inclusion have increased the percentage of women having access to a bank account, wide gaps remain in account use, and access to savings and credit. Women c
The pandemic has accelerated digitalisation, which can be used as an opportunity to bridge the gender digital divide in India.
Women have been dropping off from the labour force which is a poor indicator of a country’s progress no matter what the GDP growth indicates.
जी-20 द्वारा शुरू की गयी कई पहलों के बावजूद, चौड़े लैंगिक वि
Gender disparities in Kenya’s entrepreneurship cycle are a manifestation of both the historical marginalisation of women and the structural barriers limiting equal participation in the economy. Recent progress in the legal framework has been suboptimal in closing the gender gaps, as seen in the persistent inequalities in formal employment and the high concentration of unlicensed women-owned enterprises in the informal sector. The inequalities a
Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) is a targeted fiscal instrument that several developing countries have cemented into their growth plans. GRB is used to ensure that policy prescriptions to alleviate gender inequality translate into outputs by linking them to budgetary allocations. Although the concept was introduced in India, Bangladesh and Rwanda at around the same time (the early 2000s), the three countries have followed different routes and a
Women make up a majority of the four billion people excluded from the digital economy. Policy narratives assert that the digital economy has the potential to transform the world of work. Conversely, there are concerns that the existing ‘digital divide’ within and across nations will simply exacerbate existing social inequalities and reinforce gender hierarchies. G20 member states have repeatedly committed to bridging pervasive gender gaps in
Although India pledged to end gender disparities in its financial markets, however, studies show otherwise.
Increasing women’s participation in the skilled labour force has enormous potential for India’s sustainable transition towards clean energy
The G20 can help streamline social security systems across countries by initiating innovative mechanisms for sustainable financing and last-mile deliv
India’s leap into the services and IT sector without first going through the appropriate growth models and methods of educating and skilling its ent
Recent policies and programmes such as the draft National Energy Policy (NEP), 2017 and Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana have attempted to fill the critical gender gap by recognising the linkages of women to energy access.
Integrating the use of bicycles and establishing a sound cycling infrastructure will help India in its quest to achieve sustainable development
The female workforce in India is changing as younger women with higher levels of education enter the workforce
Care work, both paid and unpaid, is at the heart of most economies. The care sector comprises formal healthcare, childcare services, early childhood education, disability and long-term care, and eldercare. Two-thirds of care workers globally are women, and women and girls perform more than three-quarters of all unpaid care work. The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the vulnerability of care workers and deepened the gender gap. This paper a
This paper analyses historical trends in women’s participation in Indian democracy as voters, contestants, and legislators, using data on state assembly elections between the first one in 1951, and 2019. The paper finds that India is witnessing a strengthening of its democracy as measured in terms of an unprecedented growth in the political participation of women in these three roles. In these 73 years of Indian democracy, the turnout of women
The technology revolution of the 20th century minimised the importance of geographical, economic, social and political barriers and reduced transaction and information costs thus boosting productivity and growth, making governance more transparent and empowering the citizen. It propelled not only democracy, but also the market economy. Its impact on social relations, especially on gender relations, was significant, with the commodification of lab
Despite advancements in legislation and representation over the last decades, women continue to face barriers in accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare, legal protection against violence, and leadership roles. In the economic sphere, gender disparities persist in labour force participation, job sectors, wages, and unpaid care work. Women are constrained in participating in the labour market as their social role remains attached to domestic
The recent development in terms of the success of the Women's Reservation Bill underscores the importance of continued efforts to ensure women's parti
The pursuit of sustainable development cannot be effectively undertaken without the full and equal participation of women at all levels of decision-ma
Gender disparities in economic participation and opportunities remain significantly large across the world. To bridge these gaps, G20 countries are working to advance women’s entrepreneurship through financial assistance, knowledge creation, and governance for supporting enterprise. India, in particular, has introduced a number of government schemes to promote entrepreneurship among women, such as the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana and the Prad
कमला हारिस हे एक अनन्यसाधारण अमेरिकी यश आहे, यात शंकाच नाही. पण विविध क्षेत्रात अग्रगण्य असलेल्या अमेरिकेला हे साधण्यासाठी २०२० उजाडावे लागले.
शोध बताते हैं कि ग्लोबल वैल्यू चेन्स में महिलाओं की ज़्य�
भारताने G20 च्या अध्यक्षपदाची सूत्रे हाती घेतल्याने, राजकीय सशक्तीकरण साजरे करण्याचा हा एक प्रसंग आहे - दशकात महिला मतदारांच्या संख्येत झालेल्या विलक्षण वाढीमुळे आपली लो�
भारताने G20 च्या अध्यक्षपदाची सूत्रे हाती घेतल्याने, राजकीय सशक्तीकरण साजरे करण्याचा हा एक प्रसंग आहे - दशकात महिला मतदारांच्या संख्येत झालेल्या विलक्षण वाढीमुळे आपली लो�
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