The World Bank’s Reassessing Patterns of Female Labor Force Participation in India report begins with a rather unsettling truth, “Jawaharlal Nehru once remarked, ‘I have long been convinced that a nation’s progress is intimately connected with the status of its women’ (Parthasarathi, 1985). In the wake of successive waves of economic liberalization, the ‘condition’ of […]

India’s finance ministry Arun Jaitley says we are moving towards gender parity, steadily but surely. At a FICCI FLO event held recently, Jaitley said, “If you look at the world today then obviously there are several challenges that the world is facing today.  And if you compare those trends with what is happening in India then […]