Actor Smriti Kalra visited the Rajya Sabha and new Parliament in Delhi to celebrate the passing of Women Reservation Bill, and she calls it a moment of pride and honour. “It has been a long journey since 1996, when the bill was first presented and it was passed after several attempts.
Job postings for women candidates in the white-collar space have declined significantly since the beginning of the current calendar year.
On Saturday, the Congress panel on social justice also pushed for a quota within quota in the Women’s Reservation Bill, years after the party resisted such demands when the draft legislation was passed in the Rajya Sabha in 2010.
Nominated by the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Droupadi Murmu, 64, received 64.03% votes in the presidential electoral college, which comprises parliamentarians and state legislators.
In a first, the Indian Navy revealed on Thursday that an all-women crew flying a Dornier 228 aircraft has completed a maritime reconnaissance and surveillance mission in the North Arabian Sea.
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra was recently heard at a media event speaking on the many different devotional offerings made to goddess Kali. Moitra was responding to a question on a documentary titled Kaali, the poster of which had led to widespread protests.
Women who work are less likely to get matches on matrimonial websites than those who do not, a new study has found.
In the first such study of the Constitution, legislation, schemes, policies, etc, vis-à-vis the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has concluded the rights of women remain restricted in all spheres of
Google said on Sunday that it was "very pleased" to be settling, without admission of wrongdoing, a class-action lawsuit that argued it underpaid female employees and assigned them lower-ranking positions.
Captain Abhilasha Barak on Wednesday became the first woman officer to join the Army Aviation Corps as a combat aviator.