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Despite having a dedicated goal towards achieving Gender Equality — SDG 5 — disadvantageous positions for women and girls get flagged in each real
A holistic approach to combat gender-based violence will never be complete without sincere efforts to trigger behaviour change among the perpetrators.
To boost women’s entrepreneurship in India, fintech lending should become more gender-inclusive.
Mainstreaming gender in urbanisation can be a useful tool in understanding and tackling exclusionary growth and access to resources in urban spaces more generally.
It is crucial for CVE responses to more meaningfully incorporate gender perspectives and address structural gender inequality as an essential part of
Defence structures around the world are seeing a technological upheaving as new and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being added to military arsenals. However, military AI largely lacks precision and is often developed without any threat-modelling which takes gender into account, examples of which are already being seen in civilian applications of AI. Translated into a conflict environment, deploying such AI systems cou
The AI development process from design to deployment perpetuates gender bias. Future legislation should recognise these gender-based risks to mitigate
The disturbing trends seen in women’s mental health call for immediate gender mainstreaming action in mental health policies
Despite the multiple initiatives introduced by the G20, a more holistic approach needs to be adopted to diminish the gaping gender divide.
Gender empowerment and food security are deeply interconnected, with profound implications for achieving sustainable development goals
The Maharashtra government would need to invest heavily to undo the damage of the pandemic by instating beneficial programmes for women, girls and non
There is a need to move beyond empowerment towards improving the ability of urban women to join and remain in the workforce
Although India pledged to end gender disparities in its financial markets, however, studies show otherwise.
There has been a large decline in the labour force participation of women.
Budget 2023 moves from the paradigm of women’s development to women-led development
This study explores the spatial politics of Othering and whether women aremarginalized in political conversations online in India. It's methodology consists of an analysis of23,350 tweets over an eight-day period. It shows a significant underrepresentation of women inTwitter's political conversations, which mirrors a real-world marginalization of women in India'spolitical processes.
The recommendations of the Verma Committee establishing a link between the urgent need for electoral reforms and gender justice is a novel recommendation in terms of ensuring that candidates / legislators are more gender sensitive.
Implementing inclusive policies aligned with SDGs is crucial to counteract discrimination against transgender in India
The government needs to adopt a more nuanced gender-responsive budgeting to deal with gender inequality in India.
The renewed focus on the EdTech industry needs to be used to overcome gendered gaps in women’s access to education.
The seventh of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030. This challenge is acute in the African continent, home to large populations without access to electricity and clean cooking fuel. This brief explores the scope for cooperation between India and Africa in not only achieving SDG 7, but while doing so, also considering the targets set by SDG 5 to
Inclusive, thoughtful, and collective approaches can bolster secure, affordable, accessible and sustainable city transport systems for all
Several of India’s current laws ostensibly help women succeed in the workplace, but actually have the opposite effect of impeding growth and equalit
Women have particular reproductive, safety, and biological needs that urban designing must cater to in order to make the entire cityscape more accessi
Traditions that conspired to keep a woman at home may have an ally in the emerging economic landscape.
Even today, young women scholars do not receive sufficient encouragement to enter the field.
Till today, women across the world remain underrepresented in politics. This needs to change.
The impact of biowarfare on vulnerable genders needs to be factored in as discourse surrounding biological weapons expand
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.
India’s social structure, with enduring gender inequalities rooted in patriarchal norms, plays a significant role in perpetuating gender-based violence (GBV). Women in India have been victims of infanticide, selective abortions, sex trafficking, stalking, dowry demands, child marriages, acid attacks, and honour killings. This brief explores the social dimension of GBV in India and assesses how gaps in legislation help to perpetuate them. It als
Research suggests that higher women’s participation in global value chains will prove to be economically beneficial for the world.
COP27 should strive to be a platform that keeps women at the heart of intergovernmental climate negotiations
