Childcare Leave

An Indian woman in Singapore was charged with stabbing a six-year-old boy repeatedly with a pen at a childcare centre here in 2022, leaving marks on his face and scalp.

Observing the issue as "serious", the Supreme Court on Monday held that denying child-care leaves to a mother who is taking care of a child with disabilities, would violate the constitutional duty of the State to ensure equal participation of women.

India is a rising power in research and development but surprisingly, women constitute less than 20 percent of its scientific workforce.

Single fathers in Haryana government can now take up to two years off over their entire service period to take care of their children, a privilege earlier given only to women employees.

The UGC has a provision in the UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of MPhil and PhD) Regulations, 2016, stating that "the women candidate may be provided maternity leave or childcare leave once in the entire duration of MPhil and PhD for up to 240 days"

A Telugu Desam Party (TDP) parliamentarian has sought nine days of paternity leave from the Lok Sabha Speaker during the ongoing Budget Session of the House. Srikakulam MP Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu's request, along with his reasoning, mark a rare instance of gender parity, especially in the mater of childcare, being taken seriously in India.

New Delhi: The new maternity bill that proposes six months’ maternity leave for all working women was passed in the Rajya Sabha in August last year. While activists call it a progressive move for women, absence of any mention about the paternity leave in the bill is raising many eyebrows. Activists feel that by discounting the role of men, the pr...

The programme, applies to all regular full time women employees who have been employed with PwC for two or more years, have taken a break and intend to return to PwC

An Indian woman in Singapore was charged with stabbing a six-year-old boy repeatedly with a pen at a childcare centre here in 2022, leaving marks on his face and scalp.

Observing the issue as "serious", the Supreme Court on Monday held that denying child-care leaves to a mother who is taking care of a child with disabilities, would violate the constitutional duty of the State to ensure equal participation of women.

India is a rising power in research and development but surprisingly, women constitute less than 20 percent of its scientific workforce.

Single fathers in Haryana government can now take up to two years off over their entire service period to take care of their children, a privilege earlier given only to women employees.

The UGC has a provision in the UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of MPhil and PhD) Regulations, 2016, stating that "the women candidate may be provided maternity leave or childcare leave once in the entire duration of MPhil and PhD for up to 240 days"

A Telugu Desam Party (TDP) parliamentarian has sought nine days of paternity leave from the Lok Sabha Speaker during the ongoing Budget Session of the House. Srikakulam MP Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu's request, along with his reasoning, mark a rare instance of gender parity, especially in the mater of childcare, being taken seriously in India.

New Delhi: The new maternity bill that proposes six months’ maternity leave for all working women was passed in the Rajya Sabha in August last year. While activists call it a progressive move for women, absence of any mention about the paternity leave in the bill is raising many eyebrows. Activists feel that by discounting the role of men, the pr...

The programme, applies to all regular full time women employees who have been employed with PwC for two or more years, have taken a break and intend to return to PwC