SADC civil society intensifies efforts to review abortion care legislation 

Policy barriers in many countries in southern Africa need to be removed to stop unsafe abortions, improve women’s health

Fair sex, unfair pay: Women in healthcare paid 24% less than men, highlights WHO report

Gender pay gap despite women comprising 67% of global health & social care workforce, specialties still dominated by men

Major droughts make women 35 per cent more likely to be underweight: New study

Teenage pregnancy & intimate partner violence also grew after drought episodes

Africa would need another 142 years to achieve gender equality

The disparity could cost the continent nearly US$700 billion by 2025

Women in workforce: Low participation majorly due to gender discrimination, says new Oxfam report

Participation rate for women fell to 25% in 2021 from 43% in 2004-05

UN human rights unit faces financial crisis as 149 countries don’t pay dues

This has made six of the UN’s 10 treaty bodies cancel their sessions this year

India 117th among 190 countries in empowering women

Even least developed countries like Rwanda, Lesotho fared better than India

Labour Day: 10 worrying signs from the world at its youngest

A few points on the state of works in the world

Sub-Saharan Africa might need nearly a century to achieve gender parity: Global Gender Gap Report

Gender equality in the region may not be fully realised until 2125

Exploring the ‘public’ in public sanitation services

A look into whether our toilet infrastructures promote gender inclusion or exclusion

India’s sex ratio improves, but 9 million girls went ‘missing’ in last 2 decades to foeticide

Wealth, education and fertility are the key factors behind improvement

International day of women and girls in science: Getting girls beyond ‘science in school’ to ‘scientific careers’

Gender gap in STEM must be bridged to expand the talent pool and recognise women’s potential and contribution to scientific innovations

Globally, women have just two-thirds of legal rights given to men, finds World Bank

India’s rank improves from 126 to 113

Women’s Day 2024: Strength of a collective in a not-so-silent revolution

Kishori dals or girls’ collective that began in Odisha village is helping ensure girls’ rights

Reversal of gains: Haryana, a state with historically poor sex ratio, is fast losing its hard-won gains in recent years

Latest sex ratio numbers, accessed by DTE through the Right to Information Act suggested the situation has again started to worsen in …

Gender bias at workplace: 4 in 5 women miss out on raise, promotion, finds survey

Women were disproportionately impacted during COVID-19 pandemic; more than a fifth said they experienced ‘favourable bias’ at work 

How gender inequality is hindering Japan’s economic growth

Both the highly gendered workplace and unequal division of household labour mean that women are more likely than men to miss out on promotions, …

Tractors can change farming in good ways and bad: lessons from four African countries

Insights from 87 villages reveal transformative power of agricultural mechanisation, but there are challenges too — like soil erosion, …

‘I almost lost my will to live’: preference for sons is leaving young women in China exploited and abused

China urgently needs policies and intervention programmes that tackle this tradition, or it will continue to limit women’s opportunities …

Climate change is destroying women’s lives in Alwar

A host of climate change-related problems bedevil the district’s women and girls, unlike men and boys

Rural development and gender equality: A reality check in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu has to develop a policy framework to achieve employability through quality secondary education for women, shifting focus from only …

No women on the Moon yet: Gender digital divide may worsen inequality, warns UN chief

‘Need to overhaul patriarchal structures perpetuating gender inequality, especially in the technology sector’

The others too

The MeToo campaign comes at a time when women are being courted for electoral gains. Is it good or bad?

Closing the gender gap in clean energy transitions

Engaging women across diverse sectors and roles can help ensure expansion of developing countries’ GDP

Ticking time bomb: The perilous lives of garment workers amid the pandemic

Women workers in garment industry share stories of gender discrimination, insensitive treatment and government apathy