Gender parity is a statistical measure that compares a particular indicator among women, like average income, to the same indicator among men.

Japan’s parliament has passed a new law to increase female participation in politics. On May 16, it passed a law seeking to encourage women to stand for elections. In Japan, women are vastly underrepresented in politics. Political parties are urged to make the number of male and female candidates as equal as possible. However, the new […]

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai, has revealed her fondness for India and a desire to work with girls here. Speaking at the World Economic Forum, held from January 22-26, she was all praise for India. The Pakistani activist said she is overwhelmed with the love and support she receives from India. The Taliban attack survivor met a […]

Social entrepreneur Chetna Sinha of Mann Deshi co-operative bank is a co-chair at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Her three-decade-long work with rural women through Mann Deshi has established her name in the social sector. In conversation with SheThePeople.TV, Sinha said social entrepreneurship is crucial because “it marries social goals with market solutions, which makes […]

Cate Blanchett spoke about the need to protect refugees during a session at the World Economic Forum. She spoke about how more care has to be taken with refugees. The world has reached a fork in the road, she said. “I think it’s shameful. There’s so much misinformation about refugees,” she said. “They are forced to […]

This year, the World Economic Forum at Davos will be led by women. The seven co-chairs who have mostly always been men, are all women. This list the first in the Forum’s history. However, just 21 per cent of the 3,000 participants at the forum are women. Though that number is up from 20 per […]

A new World Economic Forum report on the future of jobs finds that 57 per cent of the jobs which will be replaced by technology between now and 2026 will belong to women. This is because of the dominance of men in industries like information and biotechnology, and also the fact that women are not […]

This year’s World Economic Forum has begun in Davos and focus is on gender parity to improve the economic condition of the countries. The WEF has been saying year after year how India’s GDP will get a boost if women start contributing equally to the labour force as men. And this year’s IMF report says that India’s […]

In order to keep the recovery of the world economy on track and negotiate the pitfalls ahead, policy-makers, institutions and banks must be nimble and innovative to find new models of growth, agreed a panel of experts on the last day of this year’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions. Global growth has returned to […]

Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, could soon give rise to a new internet era that is even more disruptive and transformative than the current one, according to a white paper, ‘Realizing the Potential of Blockchain’, published by the World Economic Forum. Blockchain’s ability to generate unprecedented opportunities to create and trade value in society will […]