Urban Indian women spend more time working in paid employment but they spend as much time as their rural counterparts in unpaid care and domestic work in the household.

The changing temperature and erratic rainfall means pests that were uncommon earlier are now attacking the mango crop, in the ...

Fewer women use or own mobile devices, and even fewer possess the skills required to leverage the devices and participate in ...

There’s a dearth of large nationwide studies, but smaller surveys in various parts reveal systemic bias, discrimination and ...

G. Ram Mohan is a journalist who covers agriculture, education, health and their intersections. The changing temperature and ...

Goli works on population dynamics, public health, and regional developmental issues in developing countries particularly India. He is co-author of the 2020 book, Backward and Dalit Muslims: Education, ...

Further, attitudes towards unpaid work persist. As many as 42% of women who failed to fetch water or firewood and 41% of women who failed to prepare meals for males in the family were physically ...

In six charts, we examine how Indian households are saving and borrowing, using data from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and the Reserve Bank of India ().In 2022-23, the ...

Mount Abu, Rajasthan: In September 2024, a 38-year-old woman consulted Narendra Kotwal, director of endocrinology at Paras Health, Panchkula. She reported persistent fatigue, difficulty falling asleep ...

India is reported to have at least 11 million people in modern slavery, highest in the world, according to Walk Free’s Global Slavery Index 2023. Bonded labour, a form of modern slavery, has been ...