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Disability in rural India is widespread but underserved, with limited access to physiotherapy and rehabilitation due to infrastructure gaps, stigma, and low awareness. These challenges are further intensified by poverty, distance, and gender inequality, restricting care and social inclusion. Disability in India is both a public health challenge and a social issue shaped by geography,…
The gender pay gap persists globally despite gradual progress, driven by structural inequalities, occupational segregation, and the motherhood penalty. While corporate transparency and policies can help, meaningful change requires deeper systemic reforms beyond equal pay measures. Gender pay disparity continues to be one of the most quantified, most contested, and most persistently pervasive phenomena in…
The article highlights how older women remain overlooked in gender equality efforts, especially in ESG and CSR frameworks, despite facing compounded lifelong inequalities. It calls for inclusive policies and corporate action to address their economic security, care needs, and social protection. CSW70’s Ministerial Round Table specifically addressed older women as an emerging focus area. Women…
India Skills 2025–26 ended in Greater Noida with UP winning seven medals, but only two were women, exposing a clear gender gap in vocational training. The results highlight deeper structural inequality in Skill India, where women remain underrepresented in high-value technical trades. India’s largest skill competition closed in Greater Noida on April 2. UP won…
India’s water crisis disproportionately burdens women, who spend millions of hours daily fetching water, reinforcing gender inequality. Despite massive CSR spending, corporate efforts largely ignore this social dimension and fail to reduce women’s time poverty. The Number Nobody Quotes in a Boardroom Two hundred and fifty million hours. Every single day. That is the collective…
