Period leave is not an admission of weakness for women – it is an acceptance of need

Zomato’s decision to introduce up to 10 days of ‘period leave’ a year is a welcome step.

Ranjona Banerji

· 2 hours ago

Zomato introduces period leave for menstruating employees

The company announced up to 10 days a year of period leave.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 08, 2020 · 06:19 pm

What women in rural Madhya Pradesh want: Jobs with direct access to their wages

Financial independence and training holds the answer to keeping women in the workforce.

Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend.com

· Jan 23, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Why single, childless, contended, middle-aged women make excellent protagonists

Should literature present the world as it is – filled with brutality and violence against women – or also offer a morsel of hope?

Emily Bernhard Jackson, The Conversation

· Jan 10, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Despite women being photography pioneers, the industry is plagued by a gender problem

Discrimination at the workplace, sexism and industry stereotypes have contributed to a general lack of opportunities for women in photography.

Celia Rose Jackson, The Conversation

· Sep 03, 2019 · 09:30 pm

One woman’s dogged campaign to protect Mumbai’s mangroves

A former range officer at the Mumbai Mangrove Conservation Unit, Seema Adgaonkar has been preventing illegal encroachments and planting new saplings.

Kartik Chandramouli

· Jul 28, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Japan: Labour minister defends high heels for women at work, says they are necessary

Takumi Nemoto made the remark when he was asked to comment on a campaign started by actor and writer Yumi Ishikawa.

Scroll Staff

· Jun 06, 2019 · 11:25 am

By 2024, half the chief ministers in Congress states should be women: Rahul Gandhi

The party chief also said in the next few years, he wanted women to occupy 40% of all posts in the states.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 26, 2018 · 08:02 am

Kerala: Church withdraws restrictions imposed on nun who protested against rape-accused bishop

A meeting of the parish was held after a group of parishioners came out in support of Sister Lucy Kalappura, demanding the restrictions be revoked.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 25, 2018 · 08:01 am

Why it pays for Indian companies to hire more women, put them in leadership roles

With an attrition rate of 4%, senior women executives are twice as likely to stay back in their organisations than men.

Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com

· Sep 22, 2018 · 01:30 pm

India, the world’s fastest growing startup ecosystem, has little space for female entrepreneurs

Only about 9% of the country’s startup founders are women.

Sushma UN, qz.com

· Jul 22, 2018 · 01:30 pm

For Pakistan’s women lawyers, it’s an endless battle against societal judgement

For the legal fraternity to become a community, much needs to change.

Zainab Z. Malik

· Mar 20, 2018 · 09:30 pm