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International Women's Day 2026: Legal rights exist, but implementation gap
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
This year, the theme for International Women's Day is "Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls," highlighting the urgent need to turn legal rights into real change in everyday life.
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MP Kartikeya Sharma introduces "Shakti Samman" Bill in Rajya Sabha; Propos
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
The Bill proposes a modern, technology-driven framework to ensure women receive equal pay for "Work of Equal Value," a standard that evaluates roles based on skill, effort, and responsibility rather than just job titles.
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Pakistan: ILO report flags 25 per cent gender pay gap, highlights barriers
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
An ILO report finds that women in Pakistan earn 25-30% less than men despite being more educated and working in formal, permanent jobs. With only 13.5% of employees being women, Pakistan's gender pay and employment gaps are among the highest in South Asia, Dawn reported.
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EU Council adopts new rules on pay transparency
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Under the pay transparency directive, EU companies will be required to share information about how much they pay women and men for work of equal value and take action if their gender pay gap exceeds 5 per cent.
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Income inequality in Pakistan: Top 10 pc earn 42 pc, bottom 50 pc earn onl
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
According to a World Inequality Database report, the top 10 per cent of Pakistani households earn 42 per cent of the country's income, while the bottom 50 per cent earn only 13 per cent. This means that the wealthiest households in Pakistan earn more than three times the income of the poores
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Pakistan women journalists fight for equality amid high risk of violence,
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 30 (ANI): Gender pay gap, gender bias-ness, and unfair treatment of female employees are issues rampant in Pakistan and the condition of women working as journalists in the South Asian country is no secret to the world.
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Gender pay disparity, unpaid childhood chores are related: Study
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [U.S], July 23 (ANI): Young women and girls' time spent in unpaid household work contributes to the gender pay gap, according to new research. The research shows women's later employment participation is affected by taking on the weight of this care burden in childhood, thus addin
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Study finds gender pay gap leads to fewer female candidates on the ballot
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 7 (ANI): A new study has found that electoral districts with larger gender pay gaps show favouritism toward male political candidates in Parliamentary elections, with fewer female candidates on the ballot.
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Physician practices with more female doctors have smallest gender pay gap
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Massachusetts [USA], July 30 (ANI): In medicine, men generally earn more than women for similar work, but a new study finds that the income gap between genders shrinks substantially in practices with more equal gender distributions of staff physicians.
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Navratilova blames BBC of promoting gender pay gap
Updated : 8 years ago IST
London [United Kingdom], March 20 (ANI): American tennis star Martina Navratilova has alleged that BBC paid a male voice ten times more as much as for the same role.
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Why aren't men asked about number of zeroes on their cheques: PeeCee
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 27 (ANI): Global Icon Priyanka Chopra, who has recently been featured in the top 10 of Forbes Celebrity 100 list that ranks celebrities in order of their annual income, questioned on why there's only one woman on the list, adding that men are never asked about their in
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Gender pay gap a 'global' problem: Priyanka Chopra
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 24 (ANI): The issue of gender pay gap has been the talk of the town for a while now. The latest celebrity to voice her opinion on the same is Global star Priyanka Chopra.
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