Page 20 - Women

More women borrowed personal loans during pandemic: Report

More women have resorted to unsecured personal loan borrowings, according to a report.

K-Pop to cricket, women discovering new areas of interest through Twitter

According to a recent survey, 41 per cent women surveyed said they discovered a new interest on Twitter

ESIC takes steps to ease conditions for women to avail sickness benefit

The Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) on Tuesday took steps, such as relaxing contributory conditions for insured women to avail sickness benefit

Covid impact: Women workforce disappearing, most affected in urban India

Women entrepreneurs are struggling to survive, women employed as domestic help in cities, at construction sites and in call centres, and in handicraft and retail units, have lost jobs

Whose gender bias is it, anyway?

Book review of How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back

Move to raise legal marriage age of women will see big gains: SBI report

While the mean female marriage age in India is already above 21 years, about 35% of are married before then, with the current legal limit at 18 years, according to SBI

Woman farmers, SHGs play crucial role in farm sector growth: MoS Agri

The Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare organised the Mahila Kisan Diwas through video-conferencing on Thursday, an official statement said

How women, immigrants, nonwhites helped American economy boom after WW II

The hopeful truth is that when Americans band together to force open the gates of opportunity for women, for Black men, for the groups that have long been oppressed in our economy, everyone gets ahead

More than 75% of women go through UTIs, says Co-founder of Pee Safe

UTI can lead to many associated health issues if not managed on time

In Bengaluru, amateur women footballers dole out lessons in life and sport

Sisters in Sweat is all about women building each other up, echo members of the community

Letter to BS: Global trends paint a grim picture on women leadership

The reality is that they continue to be discouraged from assuming leadership roles

What are the factors that decide women's progress at workplaces in India?

Factors that work best for Indian women are different from those that work best for women globally

Women shouldn't think of themselves as second-class citizens: Indra Nooyi

Nooyi, 64, was on Sunday inducted into the prestigious National Portrait Gallery along with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Frances Arnold, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Earth, Wind and Fire.

What women want

Zeenath Zahara's second piece, 'College girls and our glamour boys!', stung men in particular

Climate change might be a greater threat to women, but data absent

Natural disasters, which are expected to increase due to climate change, also render women and girls vulnerable to sexual abuse and exploitation, particularly in contexts of pre-existing economically

Finding her voice

For years women's voices in art and culture that challenged social mores and moral codes were silenced. A few artistes are making them mainstream again

Time poverty: Unpaid work keeps Indian women out of jobs, disempowered

Women in low-income households are also more driven to find paid work than women in higher income households where not working can be a marker of social status, as per the report

Political risks to rate cut, what India's women economists predict for 2019

Slower growth and benign inflation will boost chances of back-to-back interest rate cuts by the RBI in April

Lady with the shopping bag

Discerning nine eye-catching silhouettes of the modern Indian woman

Better roads, less corruption: Why electing a woman MLA makes more sense

While the study found about 10% of women legislators had pending charges, this was about 32% for men