WHEN KAVIPRIYA, a 22-year-old from a village in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, decided to take a factory job, her family was not thrilled. “My mother-in-law wanted me to stay at home and ...

The proportion of Indian women in work has significantly shrunk over the past two decades, new figures show, despite the nation’s phenomenal economic growth. Last week, the International ...

Indian Women Opting For Remote Work Through Skill Arbitrage Discover how SkillArbitrage is empowering Indian women to secure remote jobs and freelance opportunities globally, challenging ...

Most Indian women either never enter the work force, or drop out early on in their careers. By their twenties, women are expected to get married, have kids -- and stay at home.

First, women are busy doing unpaid work at home, including cooking, cleaning and caregiving. Second, women employees populate the informal economy in large numbers.

When a significant proportion of women say they want to stay home, the message is clear: Gender stereotypes about unpaid care work and a woman’s place in it remain prevalent Fifty-nine years ago ...

The curious case of Indian working women How a maze of laws across states come between women and work Using 48 Acts, 169 rules, and 20 notifications/orders, Trayas, a regulatory research and ...

Many Indian women have stopped working, even though India’s GDP has grown. As COVID-19 brings the economy to a halt, India must critically examine its policies through a gender lens.

Why India needs women to work Were India to rebalance its workforce, the world’s biggest democracy would be 27% richer ...

According to the latest World Bank figures, from 2021, fewer than 1 in 5 Indian women work – at least formally. (Though most work in India is informal – agricultural or domestic work – which ...