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Women’s Day 2024: Flight of hope in Uttarakhand

Women pilot AIIMS Rishikesh’s initiative to use drones to carry medical supplies to remote health centres 

What India can do to strengthen community-based foster care for children in need of nurturing

Lack of awareness involving village-level child protection committees, non-availability of frontline workers dedicated to child protection …

Turkey earthquakes one year on: The devastation has exposed deep societal scars and women are bearing the brunt

Following the quakes, women and girls faced heightened care and domestic work responsibilities, health challenges and an increased susceptibility …

Women’s Day 2024: ‘She’ is for Self Help Empowerment

In India, women self-help groups have been a source of empowerment, fostering economic independence, social stature & community resilience. …

Meet the Telangana Dalit women working to preserve millet biodiversity for 30 years

While the money these women make might not be as much as cash crops like sugarcane or wheat, they have managed to end hunger and ensure food …

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 …

Lok Sabha passes Women’s Reservation Bill with two-thirds majority

Opposition leaders have flagged concerns about the timing of the bill’s passage as well as its eventual transition to the status of law

Surgery risks are disproportionately high for women in Africa: New study

There’s a need for country-specific and condition-specific research into women’s surgical care and ways to improve these outcomes on …

DTE Coverage: Here is what happened at the 108th Indian Science Congress

From the quality of Indian scientific research to women in science, the event focussed on several issues

Retired women in South Africa carry a huge burden of poverty

The number of retirees at risk of poverty is growing

India’s homemakers being wooed by political parties is path-breaking

The socio-political message of parties promising cash value to homemakers is a recognition of women’s work in a typical male-dominated …

International Women’s Day: ‘Next, I will build a pucca house and beauty parlour’

With Trickle Up’s seed grant, a lot of women in Jharkhand’s Pakur opted for agricultural practices. But Golapi chose to run a …

'We need better awareness to stop this trend of old age pregnancies'

Jaideep Malhotra, president of the Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction (ISAR) and director of Rainbow IVF, talks to Down To Earth about the …

Global share of women in labour force stagnating for over 15 years

Women’s participation in the labour force globally was only 48 per cent in 2018. For men, this was 75 per cent. 

Unpaid work: Women and the burden of unpaid labour

By recognising unpaid labour as genuine work, India will not only benefit in terms of its GDP figures but also empower its women 

‘Gender differences in internal migration patterns decrease as countries develop’

Social and employment policies affect migration but can have different impacts according to location and circumstances

Notes from the field: Rural transformation and MGNREGA

MGNREGA has been successful in Madhya Pradesh. Can the scheme also provide solutions for the current drought in the region?

Assam bank is changing lives, making entrepreneurs of illiterate women

The cooperative bank has been helping marginalised women save and become financially independent

Women and capitalism

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Leaving the women in the woods

Forest protection initiatives taken by villagers, though laudable by themselves, have proved to be a bane for women

Conflict in the womb

An American biologist claims that a pregnant woman and her foetus are constantly engaged in a struggle with each other

Will women in panchayats change Bengal?

West Bengal is making what could be another step towards village self-rule, where villagers, including women, will decide what is best for them, …