This article is not a detailed post but links to various articles relating to India’s missing women and Gender Inequality, these are collection of articles in that direction.
- Indias missing women – OPINION – The Hindu
- MANY FACES OF GENDER INEQUALITY
- The Telegraph – Calcutta : Opinion
- Indias missing women – The Hindu
- The 217 million missing women in India’s workforce – Livemint
- The case of missing women in the boardroom | Business Standard Column
- The missing women of Indian science
- A voice, under 35: No country for free women | The Indian Express
- India’s missing girls: fears grow over rising levels of foeticide | KumKum Dasgupta |
- It will take 81 years for gender parity at workplace, says WEF report – The Hindu
- Gender gap becoming a chasm in labour market- NATIONAL – The Hindu
- A budget for women – The Hindu
- India ranked 101 in global gender gap report – The Hindu
almost 87 per cent of the 2014-15 budget of the MWCD was allocated for the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme, leaving only five per cent for schemes exclusively meant for women.
The Beijing Platform for Action, still forward-looking at 20, offers important focus in rallying people around gender equality and women’s empowerment. Its promises are necessarily ambitious. But over time, and with the accumulating energy of new generations, they are within reach.
See more at: http://beijing20.unwomen.org/en/about#sthash.SYCRNQtN.dpuf
Seven Types of Inequality
(1) Mortality inequality
(2) Natality inequality
(3) Basic facility inequality
(4) Special opportunity inequality
(5) Professional inequality
(6) Ownership inequality
(7) Household inequality
The report says on average, in 2014, over 96 per cent of the gap in health outcomes, 94 per cent of the gap in educational attainment, 60 per cent of the gap in economic participation and 21 per cent of the gap in political empowerment has been closed.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss nonprofit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva. Recognized by the Swiss authorities [1] as the international institution for public-private cooperation, its mission is cited as “committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas”.