On near-daily basis, women have to strike constant balance between work at home and work ‘outside’ and thus, they are disproportionately afflicted with time-poverty.
What are some of the ways through which biases — both internal and institutionalised — impact women at work? And what can we do about them?
The connection between safety and access to jobs is one that requires all stakeholders to consider who occupies space, and how. This is partly because the number of women we end up seeing in public spaces do it after adjusting to certain expectations and conditions.
Women want to work, and businesses benefit from their labour; therefore, this is about leveraging ambitions as much as it is about economic growth and industry.
Girls are staying in school for longer. However, even as these numbers are rising, it is important to note that this is not translating into them eventually entering the workforce.
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