gender equality

Woman farmer winnows sorghum grains in Mahboobnagar District of Andhra Pradesh-widow
January 19, 2022
No land for widows
A study in Gujarat reveals why women who have been widowed during COVID-19 are struggling to access their land rights.
by Karen Pineiro, Poonam Kathuria | 6 min read
A girl in a red tshirt with a mic speaking to an audience. There's a white board in the background. Lusi Sharma trains and conducts workshops on gender equality
December 3, 2021
A young cricketer helps her community rethink gender equality
A day in the life of a 17-year-old-girl who is just as passionate about playing cricket as she is about working towards gender equality in society.
by Lusi Sharma | 6 min read
Colourful group of people against a purple background-lgbtq inclusive workplace
November 18, 2021
Is your workplace queer inclusive?
Here are four ways in which it could be.
by Pavel Sagolsem, Ishani Banerjee | 5 min read
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August 20, 2021
Gujarat’s organic farming schemes exclude women farmers
While governments urge farmers across the country to take up organic farming, gender-agnostic policies discourage women farmers.
by Meenakshi Kapoor | 13 min read
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July 29, 2021
Gender inequality: What really needs to change?
Policies and programmes must change restrictive gender norms in order to meaningfully impact the lives of women and girls.
by Anna Rego, Shagun Sabarwal | 6 min read
A group of volunteers come together to prevent child marriage
May 26, 2021
A community-based approach to prevent child marriage
More than a year into the pandemic, we need to protect children from harm and exploitation with greater urgency.
by Chaitali Sheth | 5 min read
close up of a woman farmer in Odisha-farmer producer organisations
February 25, 2021
The 10,000 FPOs scheme ignores women farmers
If we don’t revisit the new Farmer Producer Organisations (FPO) guidelines with a gender lens, women in the agriculture sector will be left behind.
by Shilpa Vasavada | 6 min read
saree clad women congregating_Pixabay_gender budgets
February 19, 2021
Do India’s gender budgets benefit women?
An analysis of past gender budgets reveals that allocations towards schemes that benefit women have stayed constant over the last 13 years.
by Shreya Raman, IndiaSpend | 5 min read
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February 19, 2021
It’s time to compensate women’s unpaid labour
Traditional gender roles burden women with household work. We need to make efforts to reduce, redistribute, and pay for this labour.
by Sona Mitra, Soumya Kapoor Mehta | 5 min read
Indian women farmers ploughing the field_women farmers
January 13, 2021
Giving women farmers access to technology
If women in rural areas have access to land, technology, and financial services farm yield could increase by 20-30 percent.
by Shreejit Borthakur, Charu Thukral | 5 min read
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