Women
A woman is an adult female human. The term woman may also refer to a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural women is sometimes used for female humans regardless of age, as in phrases such as "women's rights." Typically, a woman has two X chromosomes and is capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. Female anatomy, as distinguished from male anatomy, includes the fallopian tubes, ovaries, uterus, vulva, breasts, Skene's glands, and Bartholin's glands. The adult female pelvis is wider than the male's, the hips are generally broader, and women have significantly less facial and …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 6 May 2024 English
Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in Sport …
Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in Sport …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 6 May 2024 English
Women in Urban Informal Work and Covid-19 in India …
Women in Urban Informal Work and Covid-19 in India …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 8 April 2024 English
is based in Pune and has worked in the field of women and health. She is the Translations Editor, Marathi …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 March 2024 English
many promises to make farming incomes both sustainable and equitable for all cultivators, especially women …
sustainable and equitable for all cultivators, especially women …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 26 March 2024 English
details how the increase in work participation has been driven by the rise in self-employment. Among women, especially those in rural areas, this self-employment mostly comprised unpaid family work. The report …
labour force participation rate, especially for women, and the unemployment rate experienced some improvement … large proportion of youths, particularly young women, not in education, employment or training. Technological … the absolute size of the agricultural workforce. Women largely account for the increase in self-employment … comprised self-employed workers, among whom unpaid (women) family workers predominate. The share of regular … attributable to a proportion of youths, mainly women, remaining out of the labor force. After 2019, the …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 21 March 2024 English
water and other essential household items are mostly hauled up and down the hills of Darjeeling by women from the Thami community who have migrated from Nepal. They carry heavy loads shoulder to shoulder …
mostly hauled up and down the hills of Darjeeling by women from the Thami community who have migrated from …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
sector. Farmers and those engaged in allied sectors have been comprehensively defined to include women, Dalit, Nomadic and Adivasi farmers. The agenda includes in its ambit landowners, tenants, sharecroppers … marginalised communities – Dalits and Adivasis, the agenda notes, are often denied access to forest land and women farmers remain landless and unpaid in many cases. The agenda adds that the central government has …
daily wage workers, vulnerable students, youth and women and unbearable burden of indebtedness; widening … the regional / sectoral level organizations of Women farmers, Dalit, Nomadic and Adivasi farmers; Landowners … resources, ecological challenge, food and nutrition, women farmers and rural non-farm enterprises. The burning … on the subjects of Land Rights for Women Farmers including the women as agricultural workers, rights of … Commons; Trade & Investment; Credit & Insurance; Women Farmers; Climate Change; etc., are some of the areas …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 March 2024 English
Notes from the PARI Library: Women’s Health …
Notes from the PARI Library: Women’s Health …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 10 March 2024 English
Discarded textile fibres are turned into ropes of all sizes by women from this nomadic community. They travel to different parts of Gujarat buying up waste fibres, journeying across the state in trains …
textile fibres are turned into ropes of all sizes by women from this nomadic community. They travel to different …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 8 March 2024 English
Thousands of ASHA workers – women health activists – from across 36 districts of Maharashtra have been rallying for better pay, given on-time, and an official order to that effect. Their recent protest … the last six months, but the promises remain off paper. A story on International Women’s Day about women, their solidari …
Thousands of ASHA workers – women health activists – from across 36 districts of Maharashtra have been … paper. A story on International Women’s Day about women, their solidarity and fight for their rights …
