Women and Work
According to the ILO study entitled: Women in Business and Management: Gaining Momentum (published in January 2015), which covers 80 of the 108 countries for which ILO data is available (Please click here to access): Indian Situation • Based on a study from Spencer Stuart titled ‘India Board Index 2012, Current board trends and practices in the BSE-100’,…
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A survey based study, called “The Economic Rights & Entitlements of Separated and Divorced Women India,” was conducted by a team of researchers, women’s rights activists and lawyers, for the Economic Research Foundation of India between October 2008 and September 2009 and will be published in 2012. It surveyed 405 Indian women who were either separated or…
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Please click here to access the key findings of the World Development Report 2012-Gender Equality and Development, which has been brought out by the World Bank, • Women now represent 40 percent of the global labor force, 43 percent of the world’s agricultural labor force, and more than half the world’s university students. Productivity will be raised if…
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Please click here to access key findings of the report entitled Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2008 Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank. According to Progress of the World’s Women: In Pursuit of Justice 2011-12, UN-Women, please click here to access • Some 600 million women, more than half the world’s working women, are in…
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