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Pakistan reports alarming increase in sexual assault cases
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], June 19 (ANI): The capital province of Pakistan, Lahore reported a large number of cases of sexual assault in the previous week. The alarming frequency of the cases prompted the Pakistan police to review the overall performance of the Gender-Based Violence Cell, a local me
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Girls' performance in mathematics now equal to boys: UNESCO report
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Paris [France], April 28 (ANI): In mathematics, the gender gap favouring boys in early grades gradually disappears, according to a new publication by UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring Report.
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Newborn girls still face existential threats in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 6 (ANI): The recent murder of an infant by her father in Pakistan's Punjab province might have come as a shock to many but critics argue that it should not as the country ranks a lowly 153 out of 156 countries on the Gender Gap Index.
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Pakistani women continue to struggle to break biases
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 21 (ANI): Pakistani women, including those in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, continue to struggle to break stigma attached to their gender, and navigating life is still an uphill battle for most women and girls.
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Kavitha highlights gender gap in jobs, calls upon industry to hire women
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], March 11 (ANI): Highlighting gender gap in jobs, Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader and MLC K Kavitha on Friday called upon the industry to hire more women and pointed out that the pandemic played havoc with women's workforce.
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As the world celebrates International Women's Day tomorrow, Pakistani wome
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 7 (ANI): As the world is moving forward and women are getting equal status in the fields of education or employment opportunities, Pakistan is witnessing a backsliding as far as women's rights are concerned with the country becoming more conservative since Imran K
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NTT DATA and NLB Services Announce, 'Bridge The Gap' Hackathon for Women I
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 4 (ANI/NewsVoir): NTT DATA - a digital business and IT services leader, and NLB Services - a leading transformational workforce solutions provider, today announced their alliance on a women-only Hackathon titled, Bridge The Gap. Through this initiative, NTT DATA and
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Study shows kids, teens believe girls aren't interested in computer scienc
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 23 (ANI): Children as young as age six develop ideas that girls are less interested than boys in computer science and engineering. These stereotypes can extend into the late teens and contribute to a gender gap in STEM college courses and related careers.
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Coursera study indicates narrowing gender gap in online learning in India
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 16 (ANI): Women in India are learning online at higher rates compared to pre-pandemic, representing 44 per cent of new learners in 2021, up from 37 per cent in 2019, according to Coursera data.
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JICA signs loan agreement for women's financial inclusion in India
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 31 (ANI): The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed a 50 million dollar (about Rs 368 crore) loan agreement with Northern Arc Capital (NAC), an Indian financial institution, to fund non-bank financial entities that provide financial services to wo
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NCW writes to States, UTs to take measures to close gender gap in Covid va
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 13 (ANI): Taking cognisance of a media report highlighting low uptake of anti-COVID jabs among women, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has written to chief secretaries of all States and Union Territories to take measures to close the gender gap in vaccination
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First-time borrowers and first generation entrepreneurs displayed tremendo
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 2 (ANI/PRNewswire): NeoGrowth, India's leading digital lender serving underbanked SME businesses, recently released the Social Impact Report 2021, which indicated that the company extended 64.5 percent of its loans to first-time borrowers while 84 percent
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