Adding women to corporate boards improves decisions about medical product safety

When boards had just one female director, seriously defective products such as cardiac stents and breast implants were not recalled more quickly

Prejudices against women didn’t reduce in last decade; 90% people still hold gender bias: UN

Countries with greater bias in gender social norms also show a lower presence of women in parliament

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’

Women, on average, enjoy barely 77% of legal rights that men do: World Bank

World Bank’s ‘Women, Business and the Law Index’ says that women just entering the workforce will retire before they enjoy the …

Women work harder than men — our anthropological study reveals why

Perfect sex equality in workload only occurs in instances where men move away from home after marriage and women do not

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 …

What India can learn from Bangladesh about closing its gender gap

Post-1971, Bangladesh embarked on an inclusive development strategy involving various non-government stakeholders, religious bodies and aid …

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, …

Mexico reserves 50% seats at all levels of government for women

Under the new set up, federal entities and the federal cabinet will have have an equal number of men and women

Closing the gender gap in clean energy transitions

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

We need to reassess vocabulary, behaviour to undo gender bias: A mathematician explains why

Mathematician Eugina Cheng speaks to DTE on her new theory of people that doesn’t look at world as a dichotomy between genders, as …

Gender inequities worsen impact of cancer in women, finds Lancet Commission

Discrimination affects their rights and opportunities to avoid risk factors, ability to get timely diagnosis & quality care

Gender gaps in agricultural sector cost Nigeria dearly

Report estimated forgone earnings from the gender gap in agricultural productivity at $2.3 billion annually

CITES COP19: ‘Recognise women’s effort in tackling wildlife trade’

Gender gaps obfuscate understanding of real-world illegal wildlife trade activities & appropriate intervention 

CoP 14: Only 25% nations include gender discussions in land degradation targets

Of around 80, 20 countries do not have role of gender and women into targets and measures to halt land degradation by 2030

It is unhealthy to be a woman in India

The 2018 Global Gender Gap report ranks India at a dismal 108 out of 149 countries; and in the South Asian region, India …

Feminist solutions to man-made economic inequality

Our economies are built on millions of hours of unpaid labour carried out every day by women; freeing up women's time would go a long way towards …

Only 1% women live in countries with high gender parity, female empowerment: UN report

In India, women empowerment, gender parity were found to be ‘low’ despite ‘medium’ human development

Church of England to explore gender-neutral terms for God — women clergy’s suggestions for replacing ‘Our Father’

Official Christian doctrine is that God has no gender; yet “He” is described almost exclusively in masculine terms

Women farmers emerging as decision-makers, innovators in wheat-based systems: Study

Women adopted specific strategies to further their interests in the context of wheat-based livelihoods, challenging men as sole decision-makers, …

‘Increased representation of women, ethnic groups not enough to overcome biases in STEM’

Down to Earth speaks to Meena Balagopal, educational researcher and ecologist, CSU, on gender bias and racism in STEM disciplines

International Women’s Day: There is new proof that COVID-19 impacted women more than men

Women have had to suffer more loss of employment and non-compensation of labour, according to a recent study published in The Lancet

A just, robust economy needs upskilling and reskilling of women

Gender gap at workplace is more stark in India than even comparable south Asian economies  

Binary blunders

The gender spectrum is a consequence of the complex interplay between culture and highly-nuanced and protean brain