Lok Sabha passes Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill; paid leaves increase
Women with two surviving children will now be entitled to increased maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks
47 per cent of Indian women still marry before 18, says new Lancet Report on adolescent health
It also says that the rate of rural Indian girls marrying before 18 years is twice that of their urban counterparts
Centuries-old obsession
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Ambitious cure for an ailing system
US President Bill Clinton has proposed an ambitious and complex programme to lower federal expenditure on health care and revamp the existing system.
A primitive trend practised the world over
The ancient Greeks and Romans attached a high social premium to males and resorted to strange ways of determining the sex of the unborn child.
Gender bias removed in clinical research
After years of discrimination, American women have won the right of equal representation in clinical research projects.
Blinded by figures
By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads …
Labourers become quarry managers
Women quarry-workers in Tamil Nadu's Pudukkottai district have formed cooperatives and are managing the same granite quarries where they once …
Indian farmers can take on the multinationals
Sharad Joshi, the well-known, controversial farm leader from Maharashtra, outlines a new strategy for agriculture.
Who will help her learn?
Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out …
Women build where others destroy
Why do women who attempt changes in local land use patterns meet with so much hostility?
Fishing fortunes
A unique fishing cooperative in Bihar's Madhubani district boosts the confidence and economic independence of the local women
Earnest endeavours
West Bengal's women panchayat members have become the torchbearers of rural development programmes in the state
Local politics
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Empowered by water: Women’s quality of life improves with household access to water supply
Women can save time to find avenues of additional income
Rural women are championing climate resilience in India
Chronicles from rural India provide a blueprint for a resilient future
COP27: The forgotten sustainable development goals
Some SDGs attract substantially less attention and resources from companies
Menstrual hygiene in Africa: No pad or no way to dispose it
Women in sub-Saharan Africa still struggle to have a healthy and safe period
Electoral power of women
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Scare tactics
Violence mars Bihar’s efforts to empower women, promote self-governance
Zero hour
Do men fall ill more often than women?
GHANA
Rural burden