In India, only 22.3% of women participate in the formal labor market, data shows.

Leisure, however hard-earned, comes laden with guilt for many women.

"... We are no longer just worrying about progress on women’s equality coming to a standstill. We’re now seeing the possibility of such progress being reversed."

India's minimum wages are also the lowest in the world.

"Women may in fact be more effective at this process than men, even when faced with the same institutional challenges."

In theory, these apps provide a unique opportunity for women, but everything from safety concerns to inaccessible incentives stand in their way.

Women will be allowed to submit their opinions at the secretariat’s office afterward, the Party suggested.

The company's rules had prohibited women from the role due to its physically demanding duties.

"Homemakers will get their due recognition through payment for their work at home which hitherto has been unrecognised and unmonetized."

The size of the payout to the plaintiff -- US$22.5 million -- signals a “seismic shift in attitudes towards gender discrimination.”

Women academics often face severe discrimination and belittlement in their fields, keeping them from flourishing as renowned experts.

While inheritance laws on the books protect women's right to own and inherit property, experts say women around the country hardly know about them.

“Instead of coming to the conclusion that their data shows the system is biased, they come to the conclusion that women shouldn’t be mentors."

Women's football faces an “existential threat” amid Covid19, warns Fifpro, a global union of football players, in a new report.

Considered women's work all over the world, the chore of fetching water becomes more and more arduous amid increasing water scarcity.

9,000 years ago, women were hunting big game alongside men, researchers believe.

Women have had limited influence over the framing, and policymaking, around the crisis, one report found.

Despite women making up a majority of frontline workers, their experiences are curiously absent from Covid19 narratives.