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Technology can empower India’s elderly—but without digital skills, it is more likely to isolate them. Bridging this gap is urgent.

The gender gap in STEM careers persists despite various initiatives. More effective strategies are needed to promote gender equity and foster an inclu

Closing the gender gap in biosecurity leadership is vital for crafting policies that address women's unique vulnerabilities and contributions in the f

As we reel under the looming threat of climate change, empowering women in agriculture can help boost productivity levels and ensure food security.

The trend of women's mass involvement in electoral politics in India indicates their readiness to narrow the significant gap in political participatio

भारत अधिक आर्थिक समावेशकतेकडे आणि महिला सक्षमीकरणाकडे �

कुशल कर्मचाऱ्यांत महिलांच्या वाढत असलेल्या सहभागात, स्�

भारतातील महिला कर्मचारी वर्ग बदलत आहे, कारण उच्च शिक्षण �

The female workforce in India is changing as younger women with higher levels of education enter the workforce

Increasing women’s participation in the skilled labour force has enormous potential for India’s sustainable transition towards clean energy

India is seeing a shift towards greater financial inclusion and women's empowerment. Policies supporting this trend can create a more equitable financ

India must follow through with its commitment to women’s empowerment and correct the gender gap in the country’s trade ecosystem

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

All eyes will be on the proceedings of the special session of Parliament with the possibility of considering the long pending Women’s Reservation Bi

Integrating the use of bicycles and establishing a sound cycling infrastructure will help India in its quest to achieve sustainable development

The pursuit of sustainable development cannot be effectively undertaken without the full and equal participation of women at all levels of decision-ma

Despite global calls to increase women in policing, the progress remains regrettably slow

G20 परिषद ही शाश्वत वित्तपुरवठा आणि तळागाळातल्या माणसांप�

The G20 can help streamline social security systems across countries by initiating innovative mechanisms for sustainable financing and last-mile deliv

भले ही भारत ने अपने वित्तीय बाज़ारों में लैंगिक असमानता �

Although India pledged to end gender disparities in its financial markets, however, studies show otherwise.

जी-20 द्वारा शुरू की गयी कई पहलों के बावजूद, चौड़े लैंगिक वि

शोध बताते हैं कि ग्लोबल वैल्यू चेन्स में महिलाओं की ज़्य�

पिछले कुछ वर्षों के दौरान, भारत ने किशोर उम्र लड़कियों के

अलग अलग क्षेत्रों में महिलाओं और पुरुषों के बीच अंतर को प�

A more gender-inclusive approach needs to adopted by financial institutions to boost women entrepreneurship in India

The pandemic has accelerated digitalisation, which can be used as an opportunity to bridge the gender digital divide in India.

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

Gender disparity has wide and reverberating impacts across all pillars of society, including significant economic implications.

In the coming budget, concrete ideas of increasing women’s participation in the workforce should be included. There has to be an increased allocatio

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.

Why is that academics has such biases?

What is driving India’s abnormally high gender gap in phone ownership? What can be done about it?

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

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.

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

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

Current discussions around the macroeconomic impacts of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and its effects on the future of work tend to be sensationalist. Unlike previous waves of automation, GenAI has the capacity to affect tasks and professions of capital holders—or white-collar workers—as well as blue-collar workers—and can also contribute to a widening of the gender gap. Capital holders must strengthen the human aspects of work

This brief examines the literacy landscape in India between 1987 and 2017, focusing on the gender gap in four age cohorts: children, youth, working-age adults, and the elderly. It finds that the gender gap in literacy has shrunk substantially for children and youth, but the gap for older adults and the elderly has seen little improvement. A state-level analysis of the gap reveals the same trend for most Indian states. The brief offers recommendat