Women Into Top Jobs

Pooja Vastrakar led India D, who came into the final as the only unbeaten outfit in the four-team event, posted 219 for eight in 50 overs. Sneh Rana-led India A got the job done in 45.4 overs courtesy Bhatia's 86 off 102 balls and Lakshmi's 64 off 70 at the top of the order.

At least 50 people have been conned in a job racket operated by clerks working at the Bareilly's Chief Medical Officer and officials at a district women's hospital, the police said today. Using fake appointment letters and forged certificates, the applicants were promised jobs and lured into paying huge sums of money. The jobs, however, never mater...

A small cloth doll named Covida, designed by the Lambadi women artisans in Tamil Nadu has turned into an inspiration, spreading a message of hope and positivity amid the gloom of job losses because of the coronavirus pandemic

Women Recruitment in Indian Army: The Army today for the first time issued an advertisement in newspapers for recruiting women into the Military Police, three months after the government announced that women would be inducted into the force in the "Personnel Below Officer Rank" (PBOR) category.

Fifty lakh men lost their jobs in the past two years beginning November 2016, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an overnight ban on high value currency, according to a new report. The timing of the start of the decline in jobs coincides with demonetisation but no "causal link" can be established based on the available data, says the repor...

A fisherman in Kerala is literally doing a backbreaking job to rescue elderly women in the flood-ravaged state. 32-year-old Jaiswal KP, went down on all four, into nearly waist deep water and offered his back so that elderly women could use him as a step and climb into the inflatable rescue boats.

Ciera Payton had just turned 18 when she was cast in a lead role opposite Steven Seagal in the 2007 film "Flight of Fury." It was her first professional acting job, and filming would take place in Romania.

In the ring, battling flames or lifting off into space, women have entered professions generally considered to be men's jobs.

The #MeToo movement may be changing work cultures from entertainment to politics, but Guadalupe Hinojosa will still be stepping into a tough world for women when she completes her training as a welder.

Pope Francis on Thursday told Vatican officials to start appointing women and lay people to top jobs in the Curia, the Holy See bureaucracy that he is seeking to shake-up.

Back in Syria, the young women were told they would get well-paid jobs at restaurants and hotels in Lebanon. But when they arrived, their belongings and mobile phones were taken away, and the women were locked up in two hotels north of Beirut and forced into prostitution.

Scores of Bangladeshi women have been lured with the promise of a good job in the Middle East and then trafficked to war-torn Syria, where they are forced into domestic or sex work, a senior Bangladeshi police official said.

Congress lawmaker Kumari Selja today sought a judicial inquiry into the reports of rape of several women in Haryana during the Jat agitation, saying "jungle raj" was prevailing in the state.

At first, Sarah Nakintu was grateful to her friend for alerting her to job opportunities in marketing and retail in Dubai.

Forcing businesses to hire women (or political parties to nominate women) deprives women of the chance to prove they could have earned their positions on their own merits.

Pooja Vastrakar led India D, who came into the final as the only unbeaten outfit in the four-team event, posted 219 for eight in 50 overs. Sneh Rana-led India A got the job done in 45.4 overs courtesy Bhatia's 86 off 102 balls and Lakshmi's 64 off 70 at the top of the order.

At least 50 people have been conned in a job racket operated by clerks working at the Bareilly's Chief Medical Officer and officials at a district women's hospital, the police said today. Using fake appointment letters and forged certificates, the applicants were promised jobs and lured into paying huge sums of money. The jobs, however, never mater...

A small cloth doll named Covida, designed by the Lambadi women artisans in Tamil Nadu has turned into an inspiration, spreading a message of hope and positivity amid the gloom of job losses because of the coronavirus pandemic

Women Recruitment in Indian Army: The Army today for the first time issued an advertisement in newspapers for recruiting women into the Military Police, three months after the government announced that women would be inducted into the force in the "Personnel Below Officer Rank" (PBOR) category.

Fifty lakh men lost their jobs in the past two years beginning November 2016, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an overnight ban on high value currency, according to a new report. The timing of the start of the decline in jobs coincides with demonetisation but no "causal link" can be established based on the available data, says the repor...

A fisherman in Kerala is literally doing a backbreaking job to rescue elderly women in the flood-ravaged state. 32-year-old Jaiswal KP, went down on all four, into nearly waist deep water and offered his back so that elderly women could use him as a step and climb into the inflatable rescue boats.

Ciera Payton had just turned 18 when she was cast in a lead role opposite Steven Seagal in the 2007 film "Flight of Fury." It was her first professional acting job, and filming would take place in Romania.

In the ring, battling flames or lifting off into space, women have entered professions generally considered to be men's jobs.

The #MeToo movement may be changing work cultures from entertainment to politics, but Guadalupe Hinojosa will still be stepping into a tough world for women when she completes her training as a welder.

Pope Francis on Thursday told Vatican officials to start appointing women and lay people to top jobs in the Curia, the Holy See bureaucracy that he is seeking to shake-up.

Back in Syria, the young women were told they would get well-paid jobs at restaurants and hotels in Lebanon. But when they arrived, their belongings and mobile phones were taken away, and the women were locked up in two hotels north of Beirut and forced into prostitution.

Scores of Bangladeshi women have been lured with the promise of a good job in the Middle East and then trafficked to war-torn Syria, where they are forced into domestic or sex work, a senior Bangladeshi police official said.

Congress lawmaker Kumari Selja today sought a judicial inquiry into the reports of rape of several women in Haryana during the Jat agitation, saying "jungle raj" was prevailing in the state.

At first, Sarah Nakintu was grateful to her friend for alerting her to job opportunities in marketing and retail in Dubai.

Forcing businesses to hire women (or political parties to nominate women) deprives women of the chance to prove they could have earned their positions on their own merits.