Equality News

A gender lens on fraud cases is irrational and a handful of female fraudsters do not represent all women entrepreneurs. Such biases, however, are pervasive. Remember the aftermath of the Elizabeth Holmes case?

Do opposites attract? While rom-coms suggest so, the story is more complex than that in a world of evolving gender roles and expectations altering modern relationship dynamics. Here’s a reality check.

Many state-owned companies continue to evade compliance due to bureaucratic challenges and systemic inefficiencies.

With advances in healthcare extending lifespans globally, a new problem has emerged: ageing populations. However, a perspective that’s often missing is its unique impact on women, who not only tend to outlive men but also experience specific social disadvantages.

India’s latest budget has allocations for security and measures like collateral-free loans for women entrepreneurs. The real test, though, is the impact such policies have on ground conditions for women’s empowerment.

The latest Time Use Survey, for 2024, reminds us that women in India bear an unfair burden of caregiving and domestic work. For the economy’s emergence, patriarchal notions of gender roles need to fade away.

India should adopt a progressive scale for traffic fines to ensure that these can deter everybody equally regardless of economic status. This is a fair and implementable way to make our roads safer.

An ICC prosecutor wants arrest warrants issued for Taliban leaders, signalling global concern for women facing brutality. Even if the ICC can’t do much, we need international institutions to push for justice.