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Dreams get a rocket launch: School girls create satellite aboard SSLV-D2

On February 10, over 700 girl students studying in government schools in different parts of India saw their dreams taking flight! More specifically, their dreams had a rocket launch. AzaadiSat 2.0, which comprised 75 experiments, was part of the payload aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation’s SSLV-D2. It was successfully launched from the Satish Dhawan […]

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Time to tap talent: When Social Inclusion Score is higher

A higher social inclusion score (SIS) than the industrial inclusion score (IIS) means there is an opportunity for companies to tap women talent in the top cities with an enabling social environment.  The recently-released Avtar’s Viewport 2022: Top Cities for Women in India throws light on the city inclusion score (CIS) of 111 cities across

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The time to end gender bias in science is now

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is observed on 11 February every year. The United Nations has called for efforts to improve their representation by removing barriers like unequal access to education and discrimination. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said that studies reveal that gender bias in science leads to worse outcomes—from

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Taking advocacy route to increase women in leadership

Malaysia is poised to improve the representation of women in decision-making positions to 30% through advocacy in government-linked and private companies. Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri, Minister of Women, Family, and Community Development of Malaysia, has called for a rise in women’s participation in corporate leadership in the country. She was quoted by a news report

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‘India highly familiar with DEI’

A newly-released report has revealed that India is highly familiar with diversity, equity, and inclusion in the APAC region, with almost 90% of the respondents being familiar with the concept. The report by FleishmanHillard’s Research and Analytics practice, TRUE Global Intelligence™ called ‘DE&I Decoded: APAC’ covers over 5,000 respondents from Australia, China, Hong Kong S.A.R.,

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Why Prez Murmu is batting for women’s workforce participation

President Droupadi Murmu has said that a low women’s participation rate is concerning, adding that women’s empowerment was both a social justice and economic issue. Addressing the Foundation Day celebration of the National Commission for Women recently, President Murmu pointed out that it was important to create a space where all women can fully participate

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Empowering women: 4 snapshots from Union Budget 2023

On February 1, 2023, Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, presented Union budget 2023-24. With a slew of measures and incentives covering several segments, here are four snapshots from the budget, which aims to empower women directly and indirectly. Empowering SHGs: The -National Rural Livelihood Mission has achieved remarkable success by mobilizing rural women into 81 lakh SHGs.

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Top Cities for Women in India: Smaller cities are more women-friendly than metros

The state capitals and metros may be the centers of business holding a lot of promise but the smaller cities are more women-friendly in India, according to the Avtar Viewport 2022: Top Cities for Women in India. The report presents city inclusion scores of around 111 cities in India— the scores are a composite of

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