How domestic responsibilities are keeping India’s women away from workforce, increasing inequality

Women spend 577% more time in a day on household work than men, according to OECD data.

Tish Sanghera, IndiaSpend.com

· Mar 26, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Four in five experts cited in online news are men, finds research in Britain

The shocking lack of gender balance is not just bad for women. It's doing the public a major disservice.

Laura Jones, The Conversation

· Jul 23, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Most Indian companies prefer male candidates over women, pay them more: Study

The preference for male candidates was found to be particularly common for machine-related, sales, or elementary jobs.

Maria Thomas, qz.com

· Apr 03, 2018 · 01:30 pm

Is universal basic income the solution to women’s inequality?

A basic income might be an effective way to treat some of the symptoms of wage inequality. But it might not address the underlying cause.

Mark Smith, The Conversation

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Genevieve Shanahan, The Conversation

· Mar 17, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Three toxic lessons IIT-Bombay gives women: sexism, chauvinism and moral policing

Power and privilege provided with apathetic institutional mechanisms in IIT force victims into silence.

Maitreyee Shukla

· Jan 26, 2018 · 07:30 pm

Data confirms what we suspected: Hindi films are still deeply sexist

Over the years, women portraying central characters in Hindi cinema have been few and far between, although this is improving.

Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com

· Oct 25, 2017 · 03:00 pm

Google sued for gender discrimination in pay and promotions

Three former employees accused the tech major of paying its male staff significantly higher salaries and assigning women posts with limited career growth.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 15, 2017 · 09:49 am

Kerala appoints three-member panel to study gender problems in state’s film industry

Last month a women’s collective had met the chief minister to ask that such a committee be formed.

Scroll Staff

· Jun 14, 2017 · 03:00 pm

How microfinance reduces gender inequality in developing countries

Providing women with credit improves gender inequality.

Quanda Zhang and Alberto Posso, The Conversation

· Mar 08, 2017 · 11:30 pm

Eighty years on, the RSS women's wing has not moved beyond seeing the woman as mother

A three-day training camp of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti opens in Delhi with talk of matri shakti – but only within the confines of a family.

Dhirendra K Jha

· Nov 12, 2016 · 07:00 am

Four women judges in the Kerala High Court is a record, but is this enough?

The representation of women in the higher judiciary remains low, with experts blaming it on gender bias and lack of incentives.

TA Ameerudheen

· Oct 19, 2016 · 05:30 pm

A Haryanvi singer's suicide attempt shows how the Sub-continent deals with 'bad women'

Sapna Chaudhary's risqué performances are seen as a threat by the very men who sponsor her shows. Pakistani model Qandeel Baloch was viewed the same way.

Sanjay Srivastava

· Sep 12, 2016 · 10:30 am