These are the 11 books in progress that the Rs 18-lakh New India Foundation fellowships will support
The books are meant to be works of non-fiction that throw light on an aspect of post-1947 India. 4 hours ago Novelist and poet Anjum Hasan is one of the 11 recipients of the fellowship. She will write a book on Shillong. | Zac O Yeah India is not known for funding literary projects in the making. There are – or were, before pandemic – several literary prizes, but these are or were given well after the winning books are published. And although there are prizes or categories for non-fiction books among them, the focus is on fiction.
. Rural female employment rate was 9.70 per cent as compared to 68.16 per cent among male.
The economic shocks in the form of demonetisation and GST, along with Covid-19pandemic-induced lockdown, have disproportionately hit the Female Labour Force Participation Rate as women between the age group of 15 to 44 have suffered 52.4 per cent job losses in 2020, experts said.
The experts including Mahesh Vyas, MD and CEO, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt Ltd, and Ravinder Kaur, professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology, IIT, Delhi were speaking at the two-day online national conference on ‘Women@Work’ organised by the Pune International Centre (PIC) along with Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy (MSEPP), and India Development Foundation.
Updated Dec 17, 2020 | 21:14 IST
According to CMIE, India’s biggest challenge on the employment front is getting its womenfolk into the labour force Urban women workforce participation rate shrinks to its lowest in November since 2016, says CMIE
New Delhi: The urban female labour participation rate in the country fell to its lowest in November at 6.9% since the data was first computed in 2016. The trend is against expectation as urban women are more educated and there are better job opportunities in urban India, says Mahesh Vyas, MD and CEO, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).
Speaking on Friday at the Women@Work conference organised by the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune International Centre, India Development Foundation and the Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, Vyas said during 2018 and 2019, when there were no economic shocks, the female participation in the labour force had stabilised at 11%, which indicate
Maharashtra’s ‘gender budget’ for FY 2020-21 unfavourable towards women’s empowerment: UNICEF study
The findings reveal that there have been no interventions for physical health disorders prevalent among women and no allocations for counselling centres for women’s mental health issues, while health insurance for sex reassignment surgeries for transgender persons is not allotted. December 12, 2020 11:21:23 pm
“There’s a need for a ‘Gender Action Plan’ as women account for 48 per cent of Maharashtra s population. Said Anuradha Nair, social policy specialist, UNICEF, Maharashtra.
Maharashtra’s ‘Gender Budget’ for financial year 2020-21 is unfavourable toward women’s empowerment and development, and there has been no advocacy towards gender equality, according to the findings of a study undertaken by UNICEF, Maharashtra.
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