Topic: Gender

The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, released on 3 December, identified Delhi as the most unsafe metropolitan city for women in India, while Uttar Pradesh emerged as the most perilous state for women in the country.

The Supreme Court of India has released a handbook to combat gender stereotyping which, as it has observed, clouded the judgments of several High Courts in the matters related to sexual and gendered violence.

Low women’s empowerment and large gender gaps are commonplace in many parts of the world, the UN’s lead agencies on gender equality and international development said in a new report published on Tuesday.

The debate around the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) has once again come to the fore, with minority religious organisations, political parties, and women’s rights groups having expressed their opposition towards the proposed introduction of the code.

India's fervent adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across manufacturing, IT, and media paints a seductive picture of progress. However, beneath this glossy veneer lurks a critical issue: the persistent gender divide that threatens to magnify existing social inequalities rooted in caste, ethnicity, and occupational discrimination. While a nascent awareness of algorithmic bias exists, translating this awareness into concrete technical solutions remains elusive.

For hours harassment was discussed and debated, but as the talk got serious and solution-seeking, panels piled upon panels and it got dragged into never-ending tomorrows.