Policy Pulse

Women account for 43% of the Ayush services workforce, with higher shares in hospitals, education and wellness establishments. A closer look at what the figures show about employment, and what …

Who pays for the journey from a training course to a sustainable livelihood? A NITI Aayog working paper gives India’s skills system a reason to examine the answer.

A prevention initiative raises a practical question for employers: how can they challenge harmful behaviour before women have to make a complaint?

For 81 years and across nine Secretaries-General, the UN’s top job has always gone to a man. The BRICS New Delhi Declaration has now placed that record inside the global-governance …

Tamil Nadu’s Thaimaman scheme gives babies born in government hospitals a one-gram gold ring. The benefit has value, but the State’s decision to cast itself as a “maternal uncle” raises …

STEP was created to equip women with employable skills and pathways into wage work or entrepreneurship. In 2026, its original model remains useful to understand, but women should also know …

ISO has launched the world’s first International Standard addressing menstruation and menopause in the workplace, bringing women’s midlife and menstrual health into occupational health and safety management.

Finland has introduced a gender-neutral model for assessing what different jobs are really worth. Its six-factor approach could change how employers think about equal pay and traditionally gendered work.

Australia has no shortage of women starting businesses. Its new Gender Index shows the sharper problem comes later, as women-led firms fall away at every stage of scale.

Women can study mine safety and design underground monitoring systems while still being legally barred from entering the mines they research. As mining technology changes, should policy distinguish between different …