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Union Budget 2024: What Is Gender Budgeting And How It Aims To Allocate Public Resources
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present the Union Budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 on Tuesday. The central government is expected to announce significant measures for the welfare and empowerment of women.
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Opinion | Governance In Action: On Delhi Government's Efforts To Empower Women
Delhi's unwavering commitment to gender mainstreaming and gender-responsive budgeting and planning serves as a shining example of governance in action.
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India's Gender Budget Up By Over 30% This Year
The Gender Budget was first introduced in the 2005-06 Budget.
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Gender Budget For 2022-23 Marginally Slips To 4.3%
Gender Budgeting has been pitched as a tool to rectify the gender inequity and ensure that benefits of socio-economic development reach women as much as men.
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More Share In Allocations, New Schemes: What Women Want From Budget 2022
Union Budget 2022: Gender-responsive budgeting was implemented in India in 2005. Since then, there have been consistent budgetary allocations to different women-specific and women-related programmes. These allocations are detailed in the Union Budget's Gender Budget Statement. Because the Union Budget has an impact on individuals throughout the fin...
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What Women Received From Budget 2021: Gender Budget Rises 6.8%
The allocation for Pro-Women Schemes - those with at least 30 per cent allocation for women - has risen from Rs 1,14,893 crore to Rs 1,28,065 crore - an increase of 11.46 per cent
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"Want Equal Share In Care Of New Born": TDP MP Seeks Paternity Leave
A Telugu Desam Party (TDP) parliamentarian has sought nine days of paternity leave from the Lok Sabha Speaker during the ongoing Budget Session of the House. Srikakulam MP Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu's request, along with his reasoning, mark a rare instance of gender parity, especially in the mater of childcare, being taken seriously in India.
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Taapsee Pannu: 'Half Of The Leading Hero's Salary Is The Entire Budget Of A Female-Driven Film'
"I hope it changes in my lifetime. That can happen when more and more people walk into a female-driven film in theatres," said Taapsee Pannu
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Nokia Says Women and Some Men Will Get a Pay Hike to Close Gender Gap
Some female Nokia employees will get a raise this summer, part of the company's effort to close its gender pay gap.
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To Head Off Labour Shortage, Canada Budget Breaks Down Gender Barriers
Canada's finance minister unveiled a budget on Tuesday that looks to boost the number of working women to head off a looming labor shortage.
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India's Pre-Budget Document Raises A Key Issue By Going Pink
The pink coloured Economic Survey document tabled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament today recommended that India must confront the societal metapreference for a son, observing that the adverse sex ratio of females to males has led to 63 million "missing" women.
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Sex-Change Surgery: India's New Line In Budget Medical Tourism
After decades of battling depression, former soldier Betty Ann Archer finally flew to New Delhi to complete her gender transition, one of a growing number of foreigners heading to India for budget sex-change operations.
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Punjab 'Fake' Encounters, Paddy Scam In Bihar Raised In Lok Sabha
Several issues, including human rights violations in "fake" encounters in Punjab, an alleged paddy procurement scam in Bihar, the plight of onion growers in Maharashtra and the need for gender budgeting were raised in the Lok Sabha today.
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India contributes $1 million to UN Women
India has contributed $1 million to the core voluntary budget of UN Women (United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) for the financial year 2013- 2014.
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Union Budget 2024: What Is Gender Budgeting And How It Aims To Allocate Public Resources
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present the Union Budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 on Tuesday. The central government is expected to announce significant measures for the welfare and empowerment of women.
-
Opinion | Governance In Action: On Delhi Government's Efforts To Empower Women
Delhi's unwavering commitment to gender mainstreaming and gender-responsive budgeting and planning serves as a shining example of governance in action.
-
India's Gender Budget Up By Over 30% This Year
The Gender Budget was first introduced in the 2005-06 Budget.
-
Gender Budget For 2022-23 Marginally Slips To 4.3%
Gender Budgeting has been pitched as a tool to rectify the gender inequity and ensure that benefits of socio-economic development reach women as much as men.
-
More Share In Allocations, New Schemes: What Women Want From Budget 2022
Union Budget 2022: Gender-responsive budgeting was implemented in India in 2005. Since then, there have been consistent budgetary allocations to different women-specific and women-related programmes. These allocations are detailed in the Union Budget's Gender Budget Statement. Because the Union Budget has an impact on individuals throughout the fin...
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What Women Received From Budget 2021: Gender Budget Rises 6.8%
The allocation for Pro-Women Schemes - those with at least 30 per cent allocation for women - has risen from Rs 1,14,893 crore to Rs 1,28,065 crore - an increase of 11.46 per cent
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"Want Equal Share In Care Of New Born": TDP MP Seeks Paternity Leave
A Telugu Desam Party (TDP) parliamentarian has sought nine days of paternity leave from the Lok Sabha Speaker during the ongoing Budget Session of the House. Srikakulam MP Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu's request, along with his reasoning, mark a rare instance of gender parity, especially in the mater of childcare, being taken seriously in India.
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Taapsee Pannu: 'Half Of The Leading Hero's Salary Is The Entire Budget Of A Female-Driven Film'
"I hope it changes in my lifetime. That can happen when more and more people walk into a female-driven film in theatres," said Taapsee Pannu
-
Nokia Says Women and Some Men Will Get a Pay Hike to Close Gender Gap
Some female Nokia employees will get a raise this summer, part of the company's effort to close its gender pay gap.
-
To Head Off Labour Shortage, Canada Budget Breaks Down Gender Barriers
Canada's finance minister unveiled a budget on Tuesday that looks to boost the number of working women to head off a looming labor shortage.
-
India's Pre-Budget Document Raises A Key Issue By Going Pink
The pink coloured Economic Survey document tabled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament today recommended that India must confront the societal metapreference for a son, observing that the adverse sex ratio of females to males has led to 63 million "missing" women.
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Sex-Change Surgery: India's New Line In Budget Medical Tourism
After decades of battling depression, former soldier Betty Ann Archer finally flew to New Delhi to complete her gender transition, one of a growing number of foreigners heading to India for budget sex-change operations.
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Punjab 'Fake' Encounters, Paddy Scam In Bihar Raised In Lok Sabha
Several issues, including human rights violations in "fake" encounters in Punjab, an alleged paddy procurement scam in Bihar, the plight of onion growers in Maharashtra and the need for gender budgeting were raised in the Lok Sabha today.
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India contributes $1 million to UN Women
India has contributed $1 million to the core voluntary budget of UN Women (United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) for the financial year 2013- 2014.
