maternity leave

Bengaluru entrepreneur Neha Bagaria started HerKey to help millions of women return to the workforce after career breaks. She shares why she was inspired to start something like this.

Among the first women in India to enter and transform male bastions, Aruna Bahuguna shares her journey of becoming united Andhra Pradesh’s first woman IPS officer, and the sexism she had to challenge throughout her career.

Besides having the highest proportion of female commercial pilots in any country, India has a booming aviation industry with more and more women entering into the field.

Although the primary focus of this initiative is mothers, the government has also extended it to single fathers whose wives have passed away.

In what would perhaps make it the first ever government institution to do so, the MSRTC will offer its women conductors a paid maternity leave for the full period of nine months.

The recent amendments are a battle won for women rights in India. But is the war against gender inequality over?

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the much-awaited Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which increases maternity leave from the present 12 weeks to 26 weeks.

From gratuity to maternity leave, a list of six employee rights that are applicable to all employees in India.

The Maharashtra government has become the first one in the country to offer maternity leave to women employees having a child through surrogacy.

The year 2015 has been marked by some precedent-setting legal judgements, particularly those that enforce the constitutional rights of women and girls as individuals, wives, single mothers and survivors of sexual crimes. Here are some of those judgements.