Tag Search: “gender”
Reporting of gender-based violence: Why public activism and dialogue matter
The recent case of an on-duty female doctor being brutally raped and murdered in a Kolkata hospital, has sparked nation-wide protests and yet again raised serious questions and concerns around women’s...
- Abhilasha Sahay
- 09 October, 2024
- Articles
Digital gender divide amidst India’s service-led growth
While India’s growth in recent decades has been services-led, entering high-productivity business services requires an adequate supply of high-skilled workers. In this context, Isha Gupta discusses ho...
- Isha Gupta
- 07 October, 2024
- Perspectives
Policy Roundup: Women’s safety, social security, clean air
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – highlighting (recent and upcoming) I4I content pertaining to the issue of women’s safety at home, the need to p...
- Nalini Gulati
- 20 September, 2024
- Perspectives
Decisions and dynamics: Unpacking the impact of contraceptive decisions on domestic violence
Women’s empowerment in the form of intra-household bargaining power, employment, and education have been documented to both reduce and increase the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV). Using...
- Karan Babbar Manini Ojha
- 09 September, 2024
- Articles
Policy Roundup: Women’s safety, sub-caste quotas, Bangladesh unrest
This Policy Roundup presents I4I content pertaining to recent developments in the Indian policy landscape – highlighting the issue of women’s safety and how it affects their work participation, and th...
- Nalini Gulati
- 30 August, 2024
- Perspectives
Analysing gender bias in school textbooks in India
If we want girls’ education to help build gender equality, a basic first step is ensuring we are not giving children sexist textbooks. This article analyses gender bias in school textbooks in India an...
- Lee Crawfurd Theodore Mitchell Radhika Nagesh Christelle Saintis-Miller Rory Todd
- 23 August, 2024
- Articles
Paternalistic discrimination against women in the labour market
Women in many low-income countries are often excluded from the labour market. This article proposes a new explanation in the form of paternalistic discrimination – the preferential hiring of men to pr...
- Nina Buchmann Carl Meyer Colin D. Sullivan
- 21 August, 2024
- Articles
Harnessing machine learning to combat domestic violence in India
One in three women globally will endure a form of domestic abuse in their lifetimes – with the prevalence being even higher in South Asian countries such as India. Given the complexity of identifying ...
- Sneha Shashidhara
- 19 August, 2024
- Perspectives
Beneath the colours: Unveiling Holi's impact on violence against women
While social norms are considered important to the issue of violence against women (VAW), there is little research on how norms impact VAW in public places. Analysing police data from Bihar, this arti...
- Claudia Martínez Rubén Poblete-Cazenave
- 07 August, 2024
- Articles
Policy Roundup: Union Budget and Economic Survey
Following the release of the latest Economic Survey of India and the first Union Budget of the new government, this Policy Roundup applies a ‘jobs’ lens to these documents – presenting key takeaways a...
- Nalini Gulati
- 26 July, 2024
- Perspectives
Female leadership in corporate India: Firm performance and culture
Under the Companies Act, 2013, all listed firms in India are required to have at least one woman on their board. This article finds that having at least one woman on board leads to better economic per...
- Ratna Sahay Navya Srivastava Mahima Vasishth
- 11 July, 2024
- Articles
Ideas@IPF2024 series: Research from NCAER’s India Policy Forum
Every year, National Council of Applied Economic Research hosts the India Policy Forum, a platform where economists and policymakers dissect research ideas for their relevance to public policy. Follo...
- Pradip Kumar Bagchi
- 10 July, 2024
- Symposium