Beena Tomar News Today

According to the World Bank’s latest data, women represented 23% of India’s formal and informal workforce in 2021, down from nearly 27% in 2005.

Pinky Negi, an Indian teacher with two master's degrees, loved her old job at a public school in the Himalayan foothills. But then she did what millions of Indian women do every year - gave up her career when she got married and had children. "The idea of not earning pinches me the most when I have to ask for the smallest of things," said Negi, who briefly tried home tutoring