CHENNAI: More than 89 million women were estimated to have remained out of the labour market in 2023-24, despite a 10% rise in urban women’s employment in the last six years, according to a report.

KOCHI: On February 10, media houses reported the death of Jolly Madhu, a 56-year-old section officer at the Coir Board. She ...

Chennai: Over 89 million or 57 per cent of working-age women in urban India remained out of the labour market in FY24, despite women outpacing men in educational enrolment. Over 89 million urban ...

Despite women’s employment in urban India jumping 10% in six years (2017-18 to 2023-24), more than 89 million urban Indian women are still out of the labour market in 2023-2024, according to a ...

In its Women in the Labour Market report, the CSO noted that the number of married women in employment rose by 21.5% over the five years from the final quarter of 2019 to the final quarter of last ...

Anjlee Agarwal, the founder of civil society organisation Samarthyam Centre for Universal Accessibility, took over Prime ...

Some defence companies shout about opportunities for their female employees while ignoring the effect their products have on ...

Paper released as West Bank sees escalations in Israeli military and settler violence, killings, injuries, forced displacements, residential demolitions and movement restrictions.Oxfam has released a ...

Three decades have passed since the Chinese capital hosted a landmark women's conference. Now it plans to do it again ...

COVID triggered record government debt, hit labor markets and shifted consumer behavior. Inequality has increased, while ...

Through the art of birth photography, Dickinson-based Regina Martin captures the raw beauty, strength and emotion of ...

Lina Abou-Habib is fighting inequality, working to change laws that make it difficult for women to keep custody of their ...