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GENDER DISPARITY NEWS
Best of Both Sides: Cities still don’t work for women
July 10, 2026 4:19 am
India’s urban agenda cannot treat women’s employment as an automatic by-product of growth
Best of Both Sides: Beyond childcare, four barriers to female participation in cities
July 10, 2026 4:16 am
Every system that touches a woman’s working life – how she gets to work, whether she can occupy public space with the same ease as men, whether she rises once she’s in an organisation, whether a bank or an investor will fund her – is designed around a male default
Biggest cities offer better salaries, more regular jobs for women, but stark gender disparity in income favours men
July 05, 2026 8:57 pm
Women’s overall contribution to workforce, however, continues to languish — just one of every four women employed in big cities compared to almost 3 of every 4 men
Not boys versus girls
June 21, 2026 7:23 am
Men and women are meant to coexist—share homes, responsibilities, affection, and the burdens of living. A healthy society cannot emerge from mutual hostility. It can emerge only from mutual dignity.
What we measure, what we miss
May 10, 2026 1:16 am
If outcomes are to be meaningful, they must move beyond surface indicators to capture substantive freedoms: the ability to make choices without coercion, to access and control resources, and to act without fear of sanction.
Gap between education and jobs for women in Delhi
April 12, 2026 7:10 am
Nearly three-quarters of educated, non-working women surveyed had never worked at all. This is not a story of women dropping out and struggling to return. It is about figuring out why educated women are not entering the workforce in the first place.
When empowerment stops at the dining table
February 15, 2026 4:39 pm
Our ask is that we should refuse to romanticise this improvement as ultimate liberation. Because empowerment that does not problematise who eats first is empowerment with strings attached.
At 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, a blow to gender disparity
April 16, 2025 5:39 pm
Global sport is striding towards an epochal moment: Female athletes are set to outnumber the males
The Mrs who doesn't cook dinner -- and a family that finds itself in the kitchen
March 17, 2025 1:15 pm
Unlike the film, the script played out differently in our house. We were a nuclear family, and my father’s job as a fighter pilot meant we lived on large bases in remote towns. While help was available, cooking remained the woman’s duty.
The shaky state of ‘manosphere’
March 09, 2025 9:58 am
Since the days of Cleopatra, the mystique of the ambitious, independent woman has been seen as a threat. Today, there’s a Cleopatra, everywhere.
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