Gender Bias India

Women constituted only eight per cent of the total 2,823 candidates in the first two phases of the Lok Sabha elections, with political activists saying it reflects a deeper issue of gender bias and that talk of women's empowerment rings hollow.

Terminating a woman's employment on the grounds of marriage was "coarse case of gender discrimination" and any law based on a gender bias is "constitutionally impermissible", the Supreme Court has said

Nigar Shaji is a scientist at the UR Rao Satellite Centre, part of ISRO, in Bengaluru and is the project director for India's first space-based solar observatory.

The Delhi High Court has closed the proceedings in a PIL alleging gender bias and discrimination in the Indian Air Force (IAF) against women who were not employed as 'airmen' in the technical and non-technical grades in any of its departments.

Infosys, the Bengaluru-based IT giant, is facing a bias suit in a US court after a former executive, in a complaint last year, accused the company of discrimination in its hiring process, based on age, gender and nationality.

A petition alleging "sections of the Hindu Succession Act are unconstitutional and violate gender equality" was on Tuesday heard by the Supreme Court.

Even though 66 per cent of people in India feel that gender equality has improved compared to their parents' time, working women in the country still contend with the strongest gender bias across Asia Pacific countries, according to LinkedIn's Opportunity Index 2021 report released on Tuesday.

Former Flight Lieutenant Gunjan Saxena Thursday told the Delhi High Court that she has not faced any discrimination on the basis of her gender in the Indian Air Force.

The move comes amid criticism that Google Translate often defaulted to masculine names when it converted text to another language.

Tennis champion Sania Mirza announced that "Mirza Malik" will be her child's last name. She was attending a panel on "Gender Bias" at the ongoing Goa Fest 2018.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, the firebrand social reformer, has been honoured with a Google Doodle on her 115th birth anniversary. From persuading Mahatma Gandhi to call upon women to march with him in the Indian Independence Movement to reinvigorating the culture of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay wore several hat...

Whether women can be punished for adultery in India will be decided by a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court. A 19th century criminal law provides for punishing only men, and not women, for adultery. Keeping in mind social progression, gender equity and sensitivity, earlier verdicts on this issue have to be revisited, the top court s...

New Delhi: Gender diversity may be a politically correct proposition, but when it comes to corporate hiring, the reality is men are preferred to women even if the two are equally qualified for the same job. This is one of the findings by a Randstad Workmonitor survey, where 55 per cent of overall respondents from India indicated that men are favour...

New Delhi: A TV show that is shattering social taboos – from domestic violence and acid attacks to menstruation and child marriage – has become one of the most watched series in the world, attracting over 400 million viewers, the producer said. Scripted to challenge deep-rooted patriarchal attitudes and gender discrimination, “Main Kuch Bhi K...

By Charu Bahri/ IndiaSpend Mount Abu, Rajasthan: I wouldn’t be around to write this story if the Bahri clan I hail from – Hindus from that part of Punjab which is now in Pakistan – had not stopped practising female infanticide in the early 1900s, with my grandparents generation. But a century on, the practice appears to have hit an all-time h...

Women constituted only eight per cent of the total 2,823 candidates in the first two phases of the Lok Sabha elections, with political activists saying it reflects a deeper issue of gender bias and that talk of women's empowerment rings hollow.

Terminating a woman's employment on the grounds of marriage was "coarse case of gender discrimination" and any law based on a gender bias is "constitutionally impermissible", the Supreme Court has said

Nigar Shaji is a scientist at the UR Rao Satellite Centre, part of ISRO, in Bengaluru and is the project director for India's first space-based solar observatory.

The Delhi High Court has closed the proceedings in a PIL alleging gender bias and discrimination in the Indian Air Force (IAF) against women who were not employed as 'airmen' in the technical and non-technical grades in any of its departments.

Infosys, the Bengaluru-based IT giant, is facing a bias suit in a US court after a former executive, in a complaint last year, accused the company of discrimination in its hiring process, based on age, gender and nationality.

A petition alleging "sections of the Hindu Succession Act are unconstitutional and violate gender equality" was on Tuesday heard by the Supreme Court.

Even though 66 per cent of people in India feel that gender equality has improved compared to their parents' time, working women in the country still contend with the strongest gender bias across Asia Pacific countries, according to LinkedIn's Opportunity Index 2021 report released on Tuesday.

Former Flight Lieutenant Gunjan Saxena Thursday told the Delhi High Court that she has not faced any discrimination on the basis of her gender in the Indian Air Force.

The move comes amid criticism that Google Translate often defaulted to masculine names when it converted text to another language.

Tennis champion Sania Mirza announced that "Mirza Malik" will be her child's last name. She was attending a panel on "Gender Bias" at the ongoing Goa Fest 2018.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, the firebrand social reformer, has been honoured with a Google Doodle on her 115th birth anniversary. From persuading Mahatma Gandhi to call upon women to march with him in the Indian Independence Movement to reinvigorating the culture of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay wore several hat...

Whether women can be punished for adultery in India will be decided by a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court. A 19th century criminal law provides for punishing only men, and not women, for adultery. Keeping in mind social progression, gender equity and sensitivity, earlier verdicts on this issue have to be revisited, the top court s...

New Delhi: Gender diversity may be a politically correct proposition, but when it comes to corporate hiring, the reality is men are preferred to women even if the two are equally qualified for the same job. This is one of the findings by a Randstad Workmonitor survey, where 55 per cent of overall respondents from India indicated that men are favour...

New Delhi: A TV show that is shattering social taboos – from domestic violence and acid attacks to menstruation and child marriage – has become one of the most watched series in the world, attracting over 400 million viewers, the producer said. Scripted to challenge deep-rooted patriarchal attitudes and gender discrimination, “Main Kuch Bhi K...

By Charu Bahri/ IndiaSpend Mount Abu, Rajasthan: I wouldn’t be around to write this story if the Bahri clan I hail from – Hindus from that part of Punjab which is now in Pakistan – had not stopped practising female infanticide in the early 1900s, with my grandparents generation. But a century on, the practice appears to have hit an all-time h...