The key findings of the report entitled Gender Pay Gap in the Formal Sector: 2006-2013 -WageIndicator Data Report (Preliminary Evidences from Paycheck India Data) can be accessed from here. Please click here to download the report. According to the report entitled: Women and Men in India 2013, 15th Issue, Central Statistics Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (please click to…
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According to the report Global and Regional Estimates of Violence against Women: Prevalence and Health Effects of Intimate Partner Violence and Non-partner Sexual Violence (2013), prepared by WHO, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and South African Medical Research Council (please click here to access the report): • Overall, 35% of women worldwide have experienced either physical…
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According to the report titled Tied in a Knot: Cross-region Marriages in Haryana and Rajasthan-Implications for Gender Rights and Gender Relations (click here to access) written by Reena Kukreja and Paritosh Kumar (2013) and produced by The Royal Norwegian Embassy: Executive Summary • In the last decade and a half, the male marriage squeeze in economically prosperous…
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According to The State of World Population 2012: By Choice, Not by Chance-Family Planning, Human Rights and Development, which has been produced by UNFPA, please click here and here to access: • As compared to 1 percent of young women, 26 percent of men in India (in the age group 15-24 years) are more likely to have high-risk sex with…
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According to Progress for Children: A Report Card on Adolescents (UNICEF-2012), Number 10, April, 2012, please click here to access: • Some 1.2 billion adolescents (10−19 years old) presently constitute 18 per cent of the world’s population. More than half of all adolescents live in Asia. In absolute numbers, India is home to more adolescents–around 243 million–than any…
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According to the report titled: Women and Men in India 2011, 13th issue, MoSPI, http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/women_men_2011_31oct11.pdf: • The average Indian woman bears her first child before she is 22 years old, and has little control over her own fertility and reproductive health. In rural India, almost 60 per cent of girls are married before they are 18. Nearly…
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According to The World’s Women and Girls: 2011, Population Reference Bureau, please click here to access: • In India during 2005-06, 30 percent of women and 26 men agreed that wife beating is acceptable if a wife argues with her husband • During 2005-06, 14 percent women and 8 percent men in India agreed that wife beating is acceptable if…
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According to Report on Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector, please click here to access: According to The EU India FTA in Agriculture and Likely Impact on Indian Women by Roopam Singh & Ranja Sengupta, December, 2009, CENTAD, please click here to access:
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According to Investing in Women as Drivers of Agricultural Growth by Jacqueline Ashby, Maria Hartl, Yianna Lambrou, Gunnar Larson, Annina Lubbock, Eija Pehu, and Catherine Ragasa, please click here to access: According to Factsheet: Women Farmers and Food Security, produced by The Hunger Project, http://www.thp.org/system/files/Factsheet+on+Women+Farmers+and+Food+Security.pdf: According to Agriculture Sector in India, please click here to access: According to Characteristics of Sex-Ratio Imbalance in…
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