Page 4 - Gender Gap
Equality at home
The march for the equality of the sexes seems to fall apart at the family hearth
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More girls aged 4-8 enrolled in govt schools, boys went to pvt ones: Report
Unlike earlier, the enrolment levels among girls overtook that of boys by a significant margin for 4-8-year-olds
 "More girls aged 4-8 enrolled in govt schools, boys went to pvt ones: Report")
Household electrification benefits men more than women in India: Study
According to the study, households tended to have more male-used appliances than neutral, and more neutral than female-used appliances
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There's a 250-year wait for the economic gender gap to close: WEF report
The economic gender gap will take 257 years to close, the WEF said, even more than the 202 years it predicted in 2018
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A continuing concern
Health, economic disparity responsible for India's gender gaps
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India ranks poorly in gender gap index; Indonesia and Brazil do better
The gender gap is relatively small across countries when it comes to health
 "India ranks poorly in gender gap index; Indonesia and Brazil do better")
Gender parity: Women are on track to earn the same as men - in 202 years
Overall gender disparity across politics, work, health and education improved by less than 0.1 percent, meaning it'll take 108 years to reach parity
 "Gender parity: Women are on track to earn the same as men - in 202 years")
Gender gap in phone access curbing women's growth; highest in Rajasthan, UP
No more than 38% of women in India own mobile phones, compared with 71% of men
What explains the gender divide among teachers in India's higher education?
Of the teachers in India's higher education ecosystem, 58 per cent are male; Bihar has the most skewed gender balance
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Gender equality not a colour that you can use to spruce up a failing career
Inclusion has never been a straight road and stories from ancient cultures show it has always been a struggle to accord equal status to all genders and species
Why the vast majority of women in India will never own a smartphone
Technology, promoted as a social equaliser, is having the opposite effect in one of the world's largest markets
 "Why the vast majority of women in India will never own a smartphone")
Digital skills help narrow gender gap at the workplace
Digitally savvy women are helping to close the gender gap in the workplace
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