October 2023
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Women Reservation Bill 2023 & Breaking the ceiling of Political Participation
“Empowerment of women leads to development. And development leads to empowerment of women.” -Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister of India In a country as diverse and dynamic as India, the participation of women in politics is a topic of paramount importance. Women make up roughly half of the population, and their engagement in governance is…
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Where are Indian Women Actively working? Peep into Industries & Occupation
Recently Nobel Prize in Economics for 2023 was announced to Claudia Goldin for her research on gender differences in the labour market using 200 years data from the USA. Women are vastly underrepresented in the global labour market and, when they work, they earn less than men. Goldin showed that female participation in the labour market did…
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Indian Women in Business: And the Businesses They Run
India has historically responded progressively to the ideas of women in positions of power. Whether having a women Prime Minister way before the western world caught today’s intense drift of feminism; to having a serious wave of women business leaders in the past few decades. These women leaders are present in almost all industries marking…
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Financing the Indian Air Force to Touch the Sky with Glory
Be it Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief missions within and beyond the country’s borders or appointing the world’s first female combat commander, the Indian Air Force has always left its special mark in the hearts of Indians. The same force is completing 91 years of its service on the coming 8th October. The Indian Air…
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Understanding the Catalan separatism in Spain
In continuation with earlier article that talked about present-day Catalan language & politics association movement. This article is set to explain the history behind. The date October 1, 2023 marks six years since the Catalan Independence Referendum was held in 2017. Spain’s north-eastern Autonomous Community of Catalonia has been at odds with Spain’s central government in Madrid…