Gender Gap Index

November 06, 2023

Accelerating participation of women in workforce: Startups show the way

The Women in India’s Startup Ecosystem Report (WISER) says that women made up 35 percent of the startup workforce in 2022 and adds that the ecosystem is uniquely positioned to attract female talent.

October 10, 2023
How Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin unravelled the gender gap inequities in labour markets

Harvard economic historian Claudia Goldin has always been committed to exposing the causes of deeply rooted wage and labour market inequality between men and women.
October 29, 2020
A clarion call for gender equality -- VSSC/IISU marks Women's Day on digital platforms

Mariam Mammen Mathew rued the lower number of women in the field of science and technology.
January 18, 2020
71% urban Indians say pay parity for women will come in 2020

Seventy one per cent of urban Indians are confident there will be pay parity for women (paid the same as men for the same work) in 2020
December 19, 2019
India slips to 112th rank on Gender Gap Index

In 2018 and 2017, India ranked 108th in the gender gap index.
October 04, 2019
53% top Indian companies have Male to Female ratio 10:1 or worse: Study

It also revealed that of the total prescribed amount of Rs 23,247.90 crore to be spent by the mandated companies on CSR, only 57 per cent has been spent.
July 11, 2019
AI tool developed to detect discrimination on race, gender

Preventing unfair treatment of individuals on the basis of race, gender or ethnicity, for example, has been a long-standing concern of civilised societies.

Gender Gap Index

Accelerating participation of women in workforce: Startups show the way

How Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin unravelled the gender gap inequities in labour markets

A clarion call for gender equality -- VSSC/IISU marks Women's Day on digital platforms

71% urban Indians say pay parity for women will come in 2020

India slips to 112th rank on Gender Gap Index

53% top Indian companies have Male to Female ratio 10:1 or worse: Study

AI tool developed to detect discrimination on race, gender

87% women likely to quit over sexual harassment: Survey

From farms to slums, Indian women on sharp end of jobs crisis

Google pays women more than men in one job category