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In Support Of Farmers Protest, Women Orgs Say Laws Have “Adverse” Impact On Rural Women

Echoing the farmers’ demands from Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi border, the letter asks for the farm legislation to be repealed and for farmer-friendly policies to be introduced.

Many Rural Women Suffer From Discrimination Says UN Secretary General António Guterres

The gender pay gap in rural areas is as high as 40% and less than 20% of landholders worldwide are women.

India’s Rural Women Show The Way Towards A Green Economy

This has further enabled salt farmers to increase their incomes by halving the expenditure on diesel and increasing salt production by approximately 15%. This has also reduced the carbon footprint of the value chain.

Odisha Women Learn Life-Saving Skills In Times Of Cyclone

South coastal Odisha’s Ganjam district started Swayamsiddha, a project as an effort to educate rural women on how to deal with cyclones.

Invisibility and the Visual: Photographing Poverty and Rural Women

There is a lot that a sentence can do. For instance: ‘I wish I was the one who committed suicide,’ a widow had once said, ‘and not my husband. It is easy to die.’ Language can be visual.

Women Lose Out When Jobs Vanish From Rural Areas

Rural jobs have vanished and rural female participation rate in the labor force fell from 49.4 percent in 2004-05 to 24.6 percent in 2017-18 according to the data by Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2017-2018. This report is for the age group 15-59. But when we talk on an overall scale, including both males and […]

Five Crore Rural Women Have Left National Job Market Since 2005

According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2017-2018 report by NSSO, over five crore rural women have left the national job market since 2004-05. Besides that, female participation has gone down by seven percentage points since 2011-12. As a result, an estimate of 2.8 crore fewer women are looking for jobs. Reasons cited According […]

Unemployment Rate At 45-Year High, Women Worst Hit: NSSO Data

The unemployment rate in India for the year 2017-18 is at a 45-year high, at 6.1%, according to a report by Business Standard, which quotes data from National Sample Survey Office’s periodic labour force survey (PLFS). This data was collected by the NSSO between July 2017 and June 2018 and the stats clearly indicate that millennials are facing […]

Of The 11 Million Jobs Lost In 2018, 8.8 Million Belonged To Women

India saw a major job crunch last year as, according to a report by Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), the total number of jobs lost in 2018 was a whopping 11 million. In other words, that is the number of Indians who lost their jobs in 2018. One of the major findings of the […]

Long Wait For LPG Subsidy, Karnataka Women Take To Eco-Friendly Stoves

As rural women living in Karnataka continue to struggle when it comes to receiving LPG subsidies, many have reportedly shifted to ‘chulhas’ or brick stoves. Due to this, the demand for firewood has gone up. Moreover, women have to walk 3-4 km to the forest to collect 120 kg wood for one house—but that only […]