Page 7 - Women Employment

43% small businesses plan to hire women in the next 6 months: Survey

Covid-19 has caused 78% of small businesses in India to reduce their workforce in the last 8 months, according to the LocalCircles survey

Oil and gas sector's CEOs club gains a rare new member: A woman

Premier Oil, Chrysaor's reverse merger will double the no. of women holding the top job at London-listed oil firms to 2

India Inc's succession plan is seeing a gender shift, albeit slowly

Women leaders, succession planners and lawyers say doors in family businesses are opening but a stronger push is needed

Covid-19 impact: Ed-Tech boom may create more opportunities for women

Teamlease Services alone has seen ed-tech companies post more than 20,000 jobs on the job portal in the last three months

India, US employment surveys show Covid-19 can skew gender parity

McKinsey report puts women job losses twice as high as men

Hard-sell on Women's Day

The anniversary has become a commercialised event

International Women's Day: India Inc vows to promote gender diversity

From financial services to manufacturing firms, corporate leaders are taking steps to ensure diversity and inclusiveness

Why should women who are enthusiastic to join workforce exit labour mkts?

Labour force participation rate among young women in the age bracket 20-24 years was 14.3 per cent in the September-December 2019 period

Women's role in labour force declining due to education, migration: Govt

Survey in 2017-18 shows women formed 23.3 per cent of labour force compared to 42.7 per cent in 2004-05.

Female labour participation improved across most Indian states in 2018

The Periodic Labour Force Survey that estimated unemployment at a 45-year high showed women's LFPR at 19.5 per cent at the end of December 2018

More women are self-employed in India, fewer hold salaried jobs

Rural women's workforce participation has fallen to 18%, and the participation of urban women is down to 14%

How unpaid work is keeping India's women away from increasing inequality

Time poverty fundamentally undermines women's human rights since it undermines women's agency and ability to make choices, as per the Oxfam report

Cost of Delhi's scant transport: Women's labour participation most hit

At 24%, India's female labour force participation is now the second-lowest in South Asia, just above Pakistan

Modi govt's push to women employment: Jobs through drinking water projects

The government has decided to launch the drinking water and sanitation project on a pilot basis in five states, including Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Maharashtra

More Indian women could opt for paid work if they found reliable caregivers

Women spend 9.4 hours a day doing some kind of unpaid work as against 17 mins a day doing paid work